Selina Meyer is achin for bacon on the stump trail.
Here is our review of Veep Season 4 episode 6.
Veepis consistently brilliant, across the board.
The acting, writing, timing, cuts are all inspired and seem completely casual and spontaneous.
Storms and Pancakes doesnt have that one special scene.
For a lot of shows that might seem like a kind of letdown.
Fun Fact: Julia Louis-Dreyfus made her big screen debut as Jeanette Cooper in the 1986 horror flickTroll.
We dont even know if President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a liberal or a conservative.
Thats because they take aim at the blandness at the sterile heart of the insipid body politic.
All sides are equally offensive.
Thats why these people got in the political game to begin with.
Tom James (Hugh Laurie) is returning to Washington and hailed because he has that human touch.
Hes as smooth as the Copy Guy on Saturday Night Live and can flip a helluva pancake.
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Fun Fact: Hugh Lauries father was a doctor.
The video chat scenes are a great running gag.
One of the writers might have seen it on a Seinfeld, but I believe its intentionally subliminally self-referential.
The president herself faces the wall to cover her mouth.
Classic, it could have been done by the Keystone Kops of the silent era.Veepwont get old.
The jokes are and always will be universal.
And they dont even tell jokes.
Tonights best lines were conversational passing tones.
There is absolutely not a single funny line that comes out of Richard Splets (Splet?
mouth, but everything he says makes me laugh.
He takes lame to a new level.
Okay, thats not exactly true, he might have had the best line on the show tonight.
It had to do with tall, middle-aged women and Jonah.
Each line is a commentary.
But I get paid.
Fun Fact: The Gettysburg Address ran about seven minutes.
Thanks John Oliver for that tidbit.
Timothy Simons performance was downright touching tonight.
I know what that sounds like and it goes double for Jonah.
The scene where he realizes he is but one in a number of tall women is a pained aria.
Kent Davison (Gary Cole) is actually a socially awkward dweeb under that tightly clipped beard.
Tony Hale brings cluelessness to artistic levels.
He hit the ground staggering tonight on the campaign bus.
Selina doesnt just execute the country.
She is forced to micromanage the comprehension of everyone who works for her.
But she has no comprehension of his growing affection, no matter how he crosses his legs.
The Egan has landed.
Getting paid is the name of the game in Washington.
Not on the public service level, they get theirs on the back end.
Both characters have had on-the-job meltdowns that were season highlights.
Amy had hers last week and Dan last season.
His was so bad he grew the D.C. Fun Fact: Julia Louis-Dreyfus has more Emmy nominations than Lucille Ball.
Dan has been getting a lot of these last-second chuckles this season.
The majority of the humor onVeepis off-hand.
It is what makes the show more real and yet more farcical.
you oughta calm down.
Go to a spa.
Take a Pilates class.
Go to a fucking church.
I dont know how I feel about Amy blowing up in the garage.
And then she pretends to ass-dial Ben just to prove she could do it.
Fun Fact: Hugh Laurie plays guitar, piano and harmonica.
He currently does it in Band from TV (wonder if they were ever called Banned from TV.
Her aloof professional demeanor is a vacuum to a deep and harsh emptiness.
They are actually the only two people on the staff who know exactly what they are doing.
Fun Fact: Louis-Dreyfus appeared in Woody AllensHannah and Her Sisters.
I dont want to break a tit.
Selina Meyer is beginning to realize that she is being usurped.
But Louis-Dreyfus wont let that sink in to the character.
She keeps Selina just self-involved enough to miss the warnings until she crashes up on the rocks.
Storms and Pancakes was another perfect episode.
Storms and Pancakes was directed by Chris Addison, story and teleplay by Georgia Pritchett and Will Smith.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
