How Veep Became Tv's Best Show About Broken People

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Sarah Marshall), The Week
Tue, 06/28/2016 - 2:58am

"I hate this country," soon-to-be former President Selina Meyer says in the season finale of Veep. She has just lost her last chance not at the Oval Office but at Oval Office adjacency. Her only option, now, is to be a regular person. The question this season — Veep's fifth — leaves us with is whether she is even capable of living such a life.

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