Enlarge / Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday. (credit: NASA) If President Donald Trump has had one consistent message about space exploration both during his campaign and presidency, it’s that America is doing badly in space. About a year ago during a campaign stop in Daytona Beach, Florida, Trump said, […]
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Veep Season 7: [Spoiler] Will Be Back
Selina Meyer put her political ambitions ahead of her personal life in Veep‘s Season 6 finale when she tearfully dumped her “Muslim baggage” before embarking on yet another run for the presidency. But there are indications that her breakup with Al Jaffar may not stick when the HBO comedy returns next year with its seventh season. Although showrunner David […]
This Season of ‘Veep’ Sent Selina Meyer to the Upside Down, and it Worked Beautifully
A lot of shows these days have been exploring alternate worlds as they relate, like photographic negatives, to this one. On Twin Peaks, you can crawl into a puddle of oil somewhere in Washington State and end up in a reality populated by giants and dead girls who can only talk backwards in fast-forward. In Stranger Things, a […]
Veep Season 6 Finale: May the Fourth Be With Her — Plus, Grade It
Veep‘s presidential library arc climaxed in Sunday’s time-tripping Season 6 finale as ex-POTUS Selina Meyer prepared to preisde over the dedication of her museum/shrine. But inevitably an 11th hour crisis derailed her big moment as Amy informed her boss that the library was going to be built on Yale University’s former slave quarters. Oh, and the […]
This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks: ‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘Veep,’ ‘GLOW’
Peak TV is a perplexing time — filled so often with wildly exciting premises and wildly unfulfilled promises. Allow us to guide you, then — on a weekly basis — through this thicket of ideas towards some of the best. This week, there’s quite a qualitative range, from the debut of the second season of […]
TV Bits: ‘Hanna’ is Happening, Jon Stewart’s HBO Show Isn’t, ‘Veep’ Renewed, and More
In this edition of TV Bits: That Hanna TV series is definitely happening Our first look at Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace in American Crime Story Jon Stewart’s HBO series goes up in smoke Comedy Central’s The President Show earns more episodes And more! Earlier this year, we wrote about how The Night Manager’s David Farr was hoping to create […]
Veep, Silicon Valley Renewed at HBO
It looks like Selina Meyer has a bit more time to secure her legacy, while PiperChat will keep on talking. RELATEDCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble? HBO on Thursday announced that it has renewed Veep for Season 7. Additionally, the premium cabler has also renewed its Sunday-night companion, Silicon Valley, for […]
Australian MP Graham Perrett Ended Up with a Black Eye and Stitches From Laughing at ‘Veep’
Australian Federal Labor MP Graham Perrett’s reaction — and the aftermath of his reaction — to the most recent Veep episode sounds like something that would only happen to a politician…in an episode of Veep. Which, yes, is now the thing people say whenever a funny fate befalls a politician — or whenever a politician does something inept, unethical, […]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale Redo an Old ‘Veep’ Scene with Their Roles Swapped
HBO’s promotional web series Flip the Script most recently flipped said script on Veep’s Gary and Selina — as in, Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the obsequious Gary Walsh, and Tony Hale became the unprincipled (now, ex) politician Selina Meyer. The two redid a scene (unfortunately without going full-out and switching costumes) from the series’ fourth season (it’s currently in […]
Veep Recap: Sex, Lies and Presidential Libraries
Need to catch up? Check out our previous Veep recap here. “Selina. Meyer. Belongs. In. An. Institution,” the former president declares in Sunday’s Veep. And so what does she do? She attempts to build herself one, of course. VIDEOSVeep, Westworld, GoT Characters Sing HBO’s Static Intro Sunday’s installment begins with Selina attending the opening of Stuart Hughes’ […]
