We could still be great

[selena-soto]

[wecouldstillbegreat]

Reid Scott as Dan Egan and Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer during a table read of 5x04, Mother.

DAN: Richard, three things. One: round up art supplies and volunteers. Two: send Jonah to get Amy and me iced coffees, splash of two percent, dusting of cocoa. Three: it has to be Jonah.

[dcbicki]

VEEP | Crate

[dcbicki]

dan/amy + parenting, probably

[veepdaily]

I’m not really great with illness or death, or basic empathy. But I just want to say I’m sorry about your dad and I think you’re being really brave.

[kissthefuture]

[bruce-slutsteen]

Veep Georgia Reunion

I tried to record this the best I could. There are glitches, but again best I could do.

Enjoy. 

@casliyn

@wecouldstillbegreat

[mooncoveys]

thinking about veep’s timeline in s7

[wecouldstillbegreat]

#according to fandom wiki amy and dan slept together in oct and then in jan she tells him she’s pregnant#so she would have been 3 months or almost 3 months#and the abortion ep takes place in may so she would have been 7 months along#and according to iowa’s abortion laws she wouldn’t have been able to get one#amy x dan#dan x amy#veep#ALSO if amy wanted an abortion i highly doubt she’d wait that fucking long to get one#given her and dan’s relationship it’s even plausible that she would get one and not even tell him she was pregnant 🤷‍♀️#anyway this is my case for why s7 isn’t canon lmao#it’s after 2am and i haven’t slept lol

[folie-lex]

I think the overwhelming wallowing over The 100 across my fandom hangouts kinda put me in the mood for some fandom and TV self reflecting today… I don’t watch The 100 so I can’t really understand the disappointment that’s taken over per se, but overall I can relate to the feelings I’m seeing. After all I’ve been in fandom long enough…

Anyhoo… I digress. The point I wanted to make is that this self reflecting I speak of, resulted in me deleting all of VEEP from my files today… 

Mind you this was done with a heavy, HEAVY, heart. I had the episodes in the folder, collecting dust and taking up precious memory space for the last 17months. And this was a show that for seasons 1 through 4 I would revisit often. A show that for its first 4 season I considered masterpiece television… But Mandel managed to strip all the things that made me genuinely love it; all the things that gave it layers and a nuance and depth; all the things that made VEEP special.

Today I realised I didn’t feel like ever watching any of it again. Not even the Iannucci seasons. That in 3 years Mandel managed to undo all the greatness from even before his tenure, is I think what upsets me the most about the downfall of VEEP.  Usually when shows have had that same fate where the change in showrunners made irreparable damage, I can still look back on the good stuff (Gilmore Girls for example. Or T70sS). Not VEEP… 

I think the fact that Mandell’s VEEP can hide behind its passable mimicry of Iannucci’s dialogue is why. Because on the surface this hollow, shallow, erratic, hysterical, pod version of VEEP can on the surface pass as the good VEEP. And it’s that mockery that makes of the show’s first 4 seasons, that really gets me and tarnishes the whole thing for me.

It always bums me out when I realise I’ve fallen out of love with a show like this. Especially one that I used to hold in as high regard as I did VEEP in those first 4 seasons.

[flergblerg]

Looking back i’m actually surprised that there were no pieces written about the sexism and misogyny in about the writing of s5-7 of Veep all the while it was on.  The arrival of the trump presidency masked that but even though Mandel and his writers suddenly felt that they couldn’t out-veep trump (of which they didn’t), I only heard praises from top tv critics and absolutely NO mentions of its sudden misogyny and mischaracterization. The more popular Veep got in the tv critic world, the more “Mandely” it got and he literally got away with turning a previously arguably actually feminist satire into a thinly veiled misogynistic show that was originally not written to be feminist in any way but ended up being so in s1-4 just by satirizing a politician that happened to be a woman very well

[wecouldstillbegreat]

I do wonder about that. I agree, I think the craziness of the current administration and Veep being known for its biting satire and humor masked the sexism and misogyny and racism. There were people who noticed the tone shift once Mandel took over, especially during the last season, but many others just chalked it up to Veep being Veep and the administration (which to be fair, is hard to outdo). The closest thing I read was the Vulture article about the last day of filming.

[allsonargent]

favorite group dynamics ≡Veep

[classsictrash]

[butthequestionis]

Veep 2x09 | Running

for me that’s how Amy and Dan would look like when summoned up to their daughter’s principal’s office

[lorandthephantoms]

Dan Egan icons

like if u save 🖤

[casliyn]

I’m debating on watching this tbh.

After the last reunion with Mandel, I’m kinda considering sitting this one out.

Is anyone else thinking of watching??

[wecouldstillbegreat]

Quest Means Business on Twitter

“"When we did shows like @VeepHBO, there were a set of agreed norms & rules by which politics was conducted," says creator @Aiannucci. Now, "there are no rules... We're in this sort of strange fantasyland where something more bizarre than the day before happens." https://t.co/ZFSqNwoKCC”

"When we did shows like @VeepHBO, there were a set of agreed norms & rules by which politics was conducted," says creator @Aiannucci. Now, "there are no rules... We're in this sort of strange fantasyland where something more bizarre than the day before happens."

Armando was featured on CNN. He talked about Veep, the current administration, and Selina’s squeaky shoes.

He doesn’t often do interviews about the show anymore, so this was a nice surprise and it made me really miss early Veep. It also made me really long for a reunion with him and the cast sans Mandel. I’d just love to hear his perspective.

[wecouldstillbegreat]

Here is the full Veep Reunion (10/04/20) in case anyone missed it or wanted to watch again. 

Thank you to @thatgirljazz for screen recording and uploading!