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Recap: 3 Weeks In, 'Veep' Gets More Focused & Funny While Taking A Bold Narrative Leap
Listen, we know our "Veep" recaps dropped off for the past few weeks. A combination of the Cannes Film Festival and screeners that didn't arrive in time led to the gap in coverage, but when we finally sat down to catch up on what we missed, we were in for a very pleasant surprise: &quo...
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Why 'Veep' is More Sitcom Than Political Satire
"Veep” may be set in the world of politics, but after three episodes, the HBO series has more in common with the modern strain of "Office"-style embarrassment comedies than creator Armando Iannucci’s other trenchant satires. The situations are the same: In each episode of ...
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Review: A Diva, A Dog & 20 Years In D.C. On 'Veep'
If over the last couple of episodes of "Veep" we've been critical of the writers overstuffing their plot, that's not an issue this time around. But unfortuantely, the titular subject of the episode (who really only comes into play in the last third), is also the least interesting.
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HBO Renews Lena Dunham's 'Girls' & Armando Iannucci's 'Veep'
Haters gonna hate, but Lena Dunham will have the final word as her excellent HBO series "Girls" as well as Armando Iannucci's "Veep" have both been renewed for a second season. And the numbers don't lie.
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HBO Renews 'Girls' and 'Veep,' Ensuring Generational Think Pieces for Another Year
Guess all that discussion about race and privilege paid off! HBO just announced that it's renewed Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow's "Girls" for a second ten-episode season.
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Review: 'Veep' Goes 'Contagion' As A Virus Makes Its Way Through Washington
We addressed this in the season's first episode, but if you're looking trenchant insight into the American political system played for laughs, "Veep" won't be doing that. But as, essentially, a workplace comedy boasting a higher concept that most, the week's entry proves that within that structure, ...
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Tony Hale Talks Being a Body Man in 'Veep' and the Return of Buster Bluth
The Washington staffers in "Veep," the first American TV series from "In the Loop"'s Armando Iannucci, are a caustic, backstabbing lot, forever scheming to advance themselves or at least hold off the underlings gunning for their jobs. All of them, that is, except for Gary, the starstruck aide played...
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Where to Watch the First Episode of 'Veep' Free Online
For anyone doing without premium cable, last night's premiere of "Veep" -- the new show from "In The Loop" director Armando Iannucci starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a hapless vice president fighting to stay politically relevant -- the first episode is now online, for fre...
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Review: Armando Iannucci's 'Veep' Off To A Fast, Furious But Only Intermittently Funny Start
In the midst of an election season, where politics in the United States seems to be more partisan than it ever has been, and riding on the back of the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread across the world last year, there is probably no better time for a political comedy. And for Armando Iannucci...
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Armando Iannucci on 'Veep,' Politics and the Inherent Funniness of Being Vice President
When it comes to satirical targets, Scottish writer, director and comedian Armando Iannucci has been gradually moving his sights up the political food chain. His ongoing BBC comedy "The Thick of It" focuses on the administrative and media mishaps of the fictitious Department of Social Affa...
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