Veep goes under investigation Here is our review of Veep Season 4 episode 9.
And the constitution doesnt look to fondly on royals.
This week the life preservers float to the top.
They are unearthed in front of a congressional committee looking into exactly what they did last week.
When they round up the usual suspects Gary (Tony Hale) comes across as Kaiser Soze.
He is the most intimate member of the staff with the president.
He takes care of her sanitary needs.
But the bagman is also the bad man.
A consultant consults a client who wants to lobby, a lobbyist actually lobbies.
Gary breaks down during questioning.
All that talk about being the presidents pipeline was bigheadedness.
To put it in legalese he is a man who prompts.
Its funny how those duties always seem to come up when she could use a prompter.
She the president and doesnt even have time for friends.
Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) has the same problem.
Catherine takes a minute for her blood sugar but things turn sour.
The investigation costs Catherine her relationship.
Jason was never right for Catherine anyway.
He was sweet but controlling, lobbying for Oxfam one minute and then consulting for big pharma the next.
It was a good day for truth but a sad day for love.
Sue (Sufe Bradshaw) would have gotten Iwo Jima right.
She has everything the president has ever done neatly filed and microfiled, but the Congress is unplayable.
The minutia of the questioning comes to the breaking point with Mike McLintocks (Matt Walsh) knee medicine.
For his right knee, the medicine has a symbol of a horse because they have good knees.
We see him wracking his brain and sweating over a completely unnecessary and irrelevant detail.
Maybe I should say staff.
Then again maybe I shouldnt say hands.
Even Richard Splet (Sam Richardson), Jonahs personal aide, cant stop thinking about it.
That is a bell that cant be unrung.
Jonah doesnt just has to endure talking about the abuse.
Hes already seen the opening of The Jonad Files.
No, his balls arent the only things being squeezed like tension balls.
Ben goes so much further than not lying.
Rain gonna fall, bars gonna close.
Bills gotta fail, he explains when asked about the dead bill.
Why would they want to kill it?
The White House sweated a full transfusion of blood working on that bill.
So intense is Bens matter-of-fact descriptions that the jury cant help but understand.
Yes, there is no other way to do things.
I was I believed every word and I saw it happen.
Dan wants to rat and roll, but Lee Patterson beat him to it.
She was the scapegoat long before he was the scape goat.
Lee is what Jimmy Cagney would have called a good kid.
She values data privacy and isnt afraid who know it.
Tom James (Hugh Laurie) throws the first snowball.
Everyone else just turns words into verbs.
Bill Ericson (Diedrich Bader) used misappropriated funds to pay lobbyists to kill the bill.
If you hadnt noticed there are knives sticking out of his back?
Ericsson took noticing in high school so he can see them.
Im gonna miss him.
Wonder who hell wind up lobbying, I mean consulting for?
Rating:
5 out of 5
