#d**** m*****

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Love how the fandom is dead but we all rejoice to talk shit about Mandel! 💞😂

Lol. United in our mutual disdain for M*ndel. It’s what he deserves.

[rhrsoulmates]

The Veep finale

was definitely the funniest and closest to Veep of the past but all finales have me so depressed afterwards. I wasn’t really too shocked with much of what occurred, due to the spoiler speculation over this past season, but... poor Gary. (Didn’t see that coming.) Also, we basically knew that DM wasn’t going to give us anything else with regards to Dan and Amy so I guess I came to have zero expectations in that regard but I’m not happy with Amy and ****. Dan’s future employment so fits him. He looked hot, as always. I enjoyed the callbacks and seeing an old friend from the White House. (Trying to keep things sort of vague.) Also, the scenes with Ben and when Selina was starting to say, “The incompetence in this office is stagger...” but stopped and realized she was all alone - they were the most touching. Loved the many callbacks throughout the episode.

Overall, good final episode but for me, the series ended when Armando left. The rest was just a bad AU fic that you’re too far in not to finish.

[casliyn]

This motherfucker dVid really woke up one morning and just went ‘fuck it’ and burnt an Emmy winning series to the ground huh

guys,,stop,,,I legit can’t breathe anymore lmao

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I reread The Hollywood Reporter Oral History and:

1. It looks like all agencies submitted lists of showrunners to replace Iannucci and Casey (I don’t know who this is) suggested Mandel because of his connection to Curbed. It seemed like they were set on Mandel. I wonder who the other people were on that list and what shows they had worked on.

2. “I felt like I was selling myself a bit to the cast, too. Like, “I worked on Curb and Seinfeld. Relax, I know what I’m doing!” He already had an ego before even signing on. I’m glad the cast kept it in check. Of course that didn’t last, especially with all the critical acclaim and Emmys. Curb and Seinfeld is not the same as political satire. It wasn’t until after they chose him and they started working through some scripts that this became clear. 

3. Love Julia and her looking out for the cast and the show.

4. “Season six was when you really saw the new regime’s voices come into their own.” That would explain the quality of season 6. Even though there were clear differences, I actually enjoyed certain parts of season 5, but I can’t put my finger on why it started going downhill after that. Maybe taking them out of the White House and breaking everyone up was part of it. They created an entire CBS studio, but that arc basically went nowhere. 

5. “Their take on politics was different than the British group.” It was more manic and meaner. Yes, especially with season 7. I’m thinking about the flashforward and I really wonder where all the characters would have ended up had Iannucci stayed and they did 8 seasons as the cast had anticipated. But it looks like his other shows ran around 4 seasons as well, so the series finale would have been Election Night.

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Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?

The show’s vicious political satire defined a decade of comedy, but its last season lacked the same punch.

This is a really interesting article about Veep and political satire.

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LMAOO. David Mandel just blocked me for my last tweet about the interview he did with Uproxx and Dan and Amy. 

I just had to say something. I just found it so disrespectful that he wrote their entire arc this season just to throw it in the faces of Dan and Amy fans. 

I was having trouble reconciling seasons 1-4 and 5-7 and he made it pretty easy for me to not consider 5-7. Season 5 was not that bad, there were actually a few episodes that I enjoyed. And I might have even been okay with the finale, but I just can’t with his blatant disregard for everything, Armando, the original material, the characters, the storylines, and everything leading up to it.

For those of you on twitter, if you could like/retweet my tweet, I’d appreciate it. 

https://twitter.com/alwaysveeping/status/1128318106651189250

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'Veep' Boss David Mandel on Sticking the Finale and All the Easter Eggs Viewers Missed

HBO's Emmy-nominated crass political comedy, revolving around antihero Selina Meyer, wrapped with a fitting conclusion: "We spent a torturous amount of time figuring out the exact right ending for these people."