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Josh Lyman posted:This is the perfect weekend night cap after the slog of GoT. I still gotta finish season 3. I haven't been following Veep, what's happened so far this season?
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Apr 28, 2014 03:30
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BigRed0427 posted:I still gotta finish season 3. Nothing hugely important has happened yet, at least not anything that you could call an event. They've mostly been having fun with the premise of running for president
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Apr 28, 2014 03:49
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"Jonah with money...my god, it's like if Hitler could fly."
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Apr 28, 2014 03:56
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Unrelated to the current episode, but there's only one thing I ask of this show before it ends: For Amy to make some kind of off-hand comment that her first boyfriend died from being stung by bees.
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Apr 28, 2014 04:05
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Speaking of Amy's boyfriends, her short lived BF from one of the past seasons is in Silicon Valley and is doing a knock out job.
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Apr 28, 2014 04:24
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I wish they had let the rich Jonah plot go for a few episodes while he maxed out his credit cards in anticipation of his windfall
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Apr 28, 2014 05:28
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The smarch? You have a special little march?  JLD
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Apr 28, 2014 05:47
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I just noticed in this episode that Selina had a woman in her security detail. That's pretty neat. I'm sick of every extra they cast as Secret Service in shows being vaguely threatening dudes in sunglasses. Have they had one before?
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Apr 28, 2014 06:35
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Nice skewering of Google and the general uncomfortable relationship between politics and Silicon Valley geekery. Oh, and: "I've never made political capital out of my military record..."
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Apr 28, 2014 07:46
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Danny Chung Torture Danny Chung Torture DANNY CHUNG TORTURE DANNY CHUNG TORTURE
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Apr 28, 2014 09:57
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BigRed0427 posted:I haven't been following Veep, what's happened so far this season?  
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Apr 28, 2014 11:39
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I liked Veep's take on Silicon Valley much more than the new show of same name. Craig's reaction when Selena abruptly declines to take home a smarch is priceless.
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Apr 28, 2014 12:58
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thathonkey posted:Craig CrAIg
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Apr 28, 2014 14:18
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Man I love how this show revels in kicking Jonah when he's down 
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Apr 28, 2014 14:23
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"We see ourselves as very much post-tax" was just perfect.
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Apr 28, 2014 18:16
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I also came in to say that this was a much better version of Silicon Valley.
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Apr 28, 2014 18:44
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Popelmon posted:"We see ourselves as very much post-tax" was just perfect. Craig's bullshit was some of the funniest stuff in the entire run of the series.
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Apr 28, 2014 19:10
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All I can think of is this.
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Apr 28, 2014 23:14
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Kleptobot posted:"Jonah with money...my god, it's like if Hitler could fly." Straight into my top 10 quotes of the whole show.
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Apr 28, 2014 23:51
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This show is just too loving good.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:35
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Sentinel Red posted:This show is just too loving good. MeatingMyers.com on the huge projection screen was brilliant. Didn't think they'd go there!
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Apr 29, 2014 00:38
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Ok can someone spell Craig phoenetically? Also I don't think it's really fair to compare Silicon Valley to Veep. Veep is easily in the top 5 comedies airing and SV is a brand new show. Unrelated, this is shaping up to be Veep's best season yet. Selena campaigning is a much more interesting story than Selena dealing with being sidelined as VP.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:51
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I missed some good stuff on the first watch from laughing so much at 'Meating Meyer'. Gary tries to block the projection with a sign, only magnifying the image, to which Selina says "I'm only getting hosed HARDER that way, Gary". And also that all the chaos was further wear and tear on Gary's injured soldier. Awesome scene.
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zoux posted:Ok can someone spell Craig phoenetically? Cray-g, instead of Creg.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:18
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twoot posted:Cray-g, instead of Creg. Yeah but you have to draw out the ayyyy more. It was a great gag.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:23
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you see these brains?? you see why I'm pattin them??
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Holy poo poo, last episodes best line goes to Amy. "Mike, I am balls-deep into this omelet, can you call this Cassie woman and invite her to Washington already?" Man did that line kill me. It's followed up by a pretty great Mike-ism as well: "How come I don't have a tell-what-to-do guy?". Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I just noticed in this episode that Selina had a woman in her security detail. That's pretty neat. I'm sick of every extra they cast as Secret Service in shows being vaguely threatening dudes in sunglasses. Have they had one before? Selina has had at least one woman in her security detail since season 1. There is this tall woman in her 40s with short semi-curly brown hair who seems to have a recurring non-speaking role as one of her secret service agents. She's been in a lot of episodes, I've seen her in the background lots of times. Damo fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 10:24
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Crayeeg or something. Oh man, this show owns, but this season does feel a bit off somehow. Probably pushing the campaign plot and not having Selina in the district of cunts is part of it, but I can't really complain about anything specifically. It's still hilarious and Jonad is still an rear end.
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Apr 29, 2014 10:59
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I like that they've gone with an overarching presidential campaign story this season because the stupidity of 2012 is still somewhat fresh, and it provides plenty of material for mockery when the actual campaigns start next year. e: also I was dying at that stupid Danny Chung Torture word cloud thing
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Apr 29, 2014 11:34
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twoot posted:Cray-g, instead of Creg. (note: in britain we pronounce cray-g by default, i'm always a bit weirded out when someone with the name shows up on american tv because it doesn't come up often enough for me to have associated it as a legit pronunciation) Also this was one of the best episodes yet, excellent and remarkably savvy skewering of silicon valley.
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Apr 29, 2014 14:41
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So assuming they don't want this show to end in a season, how do you think they'll handle the presidential run? I mean...if she loses...she's gone. If she wins...it's not really VEEP... The only resolution I see that keeps the show "as-is<" is if the POTUS decides he IS going to run. Although...I guess technically she can lose in the primaries and the front-runner can choose her as running-mate, and then win, right? That's never happened before, AFAIK, but there's nothing against it, is there? But then it'd be tricky because one of the running jokes I love is that we never see, hear, nor even know the name of POTUS. That'd be harder to do if he's a rival in the primaries, and then picks her as a running mate. In theory, we'd see them together on the campaign trail. Then again, they can certainly just end the show next year if that's their plan. Nothing wrong with a TV show that is solid every season and doesn't overstay it's welcome as long as they can wrap it up properly.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Although...I guess technically she can lose in the primaries and the front-runner can choose her as running-mate, and then win, right? The intro to every episode suggests this is exactly how she got her position as VP in the first place.
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Apr 29, 2014 16:24
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DrBouvenstein posted:
In real life, this is what happened with Ronald Reagan and George Bush the First.
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Apr 29, 2014 16:39
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DrBouvenstein posted:Although...I guess technically she can lose in the primaries and the front-runner can choose her as running-mate, and then win, right? The opening kinda hints that this is exactly what happened to her the first go-around. My god this episode was amazing. Furthering my belief that silicon valley is filled with enormous fuckwads and nothing else.
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Goddman do I love this show the first two seasons were great but this one has been knocking it out of the park.DrBouvenstein posted:But then it'd be tricky because one of the running jokes I love is that we never see, hear, nor even know the name of POTUS. That'd be harder to do if he's a rival in the primaries, and then picks her as a running mate. In theory, we'd see them together on the campaign trail. I think the only thing we know about POTUS's appearance is he has some freakish jowels.
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Yoshifan823 posted:The opening kinda hints that this is exactly what happened to her the first go-around. Yeah I thought this was the entire premise of the show. POTUS is Republican, but chose a Democrat VP and ignores her completely leaving her to do her own thing.
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Apr 29, 2014 17:14
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:The intro to every episode suggests this is exactly how she got her position as VP in the first place. she ran, lost the nomination, and then became Veep. Like Joe Biden did. However afaik there hasn't been a sitting Veep who has ran again, lost, and then stayed on as another president's veep.
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homo punching bag posted:Yeah I thought this was the entire premise of the show. POTUS is Republican, but chose a Democrat VP and ignores her completely leaving her to do her own thing. Both POTUS and the VEEP are in the same party. Yeah you can choose whoever you want to run with you as VEEP but noone would ever pick someone from the opposing party, plus its been stated multiple times ( a bunch in season 2) that they are in the same party. Selina lost the democratic primary not the general election. The president ignores the VEEP because being the VEEP is like the least important job in Washington unless the pres decides to give you some power. SpRahl fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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SpRahl posted:The president ignores the VEEP because being the VEEP is like the least important job in Washington unless the pres decides to give you some power. Yeah, VEEP is a warm body and on rare occasions to act as the tie breaking vote in the Senate. But having a VEEP from the other party does very rarely occur, Andrew Johnson is an example, the guy who was Lincoln's VP. Simstim fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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