Veep - The Vice President

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Television series
German title Veep - The Vice President
Original title Veep
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2012-2019
length about 30 minutes
Episodes 65 in 7 seasons ( list )
genre Dramedy , politics - drama
idea Armando Iannucci
music Rupert Gregson-Williams ,
Christopher Willis
First broadcast April 22, 2012 (USA) on HBO
German-language
first broadcast		 November 13, 2012 on Sky Atlantic HD
occupation

Veep - The Vice-President (Original title: Veep ) is an American dramedy - television series of Armando Iannucci and uses the same visual style as the BBC -Politiksatire The Thick of It . It's about the Vice President of the United States and her everyday life in the State Office. It was first broadcast on April 22, 2012 on the cable broadcaster HBO . At the Primetime Emmy Awards 2012 , the series was nominated in three categories, of which the leading actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the award in the category Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series . At the Emmy Awards in 2016 and 2017 , both series and leading actress were awarded. Overall, Louis-Dreyfus set a record of six Emmys in a row for the same role.

On May 24, 2017, the series was extended by a seventh and final season, which consists of seven episodes and ended on May 12, 2019 after 65 episodes broadcast.

characters

main characters

  • Selina Catherine Meyer (née Eaton) : She is a former senator from Maryland , who at the beginning of the series takes on the title role of Vice President of the United States and has a difficult relationship with the President. After the president decides not to run for a second term, she runs for president herself. At the end of the third season, she finally becomes president after the president resigns for family reasons. Due to a historic tie in the following election campaign and the complex constitutional law, she loses to Laura Montez in the presidential election at the end of the fifth season. In season 6, she sets up a foundation named after her and publishes her autobiography: A Women First: First Women , only to run again for president at the end of the season. She is divorced and has one daughter, Catherine. She has a kind of on-off relationship with her ex-husband.
  • AMY BROOKHEIMER: She's the Vice President's chief of staff. She regularly sacrifices her reputation to save Selina's political career. Because of her overwork, she is unable to enter into long-term romantic relationships, much to the displeasure of her family. She may still have feelings for Dan, with whom she had a brief affair. She later becomes Selina's campaign manager, but gets out after she ventures into anger over an advisor and old friend of Selina's. After the historic tie, she rejoins the Meyer team and oversees the recount of votes in the state of Nevada , which would be crucial for Selina's election victory. Another characteristic besides being overused is their very direct and often vulgar style of expression.
  • Gary Walsh: Selina's personal assistant from Alabama who is totally devoted and loyal to her. He is an only child, the son of Imogene and Judge, whom he even calls by his first name. Socially, he is a little awkward and shows a little masculine behavior. He holds a degree in Hotel Management from Cornell University . Despite his rather inferior job and the many humiliations he has been subjected to, he is diligent and proud of his position. He carries Selina's belongings in a shoulder bag, which he calls his "Leviathan". He often provides Selina with direct information about the people she is facing. After Selina loses the election, he remains her assistant in season 6.
  • Dan Egan: Dan is Selina's self-confident and very ambitious deputy head of communications who, thanks to his networking skills, is well connected in DC and is a classic womanizer. For example, he tied up with the daughters of high-ranking politicians in order to advance his political career. He is fired after suffering a nervous breakdown, but soon returns to the Meyer team as deputy campaign manager after serving as a lobbyist and CNN with little success. After Selina's electoral defeat, he takes on a moderation position on CBS This Morning in season 6 and has some problems with his co-moderators and his program director. At the end of the season, he rejoins Selina's campaign team.
  • Jonah Ryan: At first he's the liaison officer between the White House and the Vice President's office. He constantly messes with the latter's staff, who have very little left for him. He's never afraid to make sexual advances to women, including Amy. Sometimes he has an easily irritable disposition. During season three, he was fired for running a blog that shared inside White House information, and he launched a new website called Ryantology, posting conspiracy theories and the like. During Selina's brief tenure as president, he again acts as a connecting pipe, this time to Vice President Doyle. He later also joined the campaign team until a New Hampshire Congressman dies and he runs for that seat to enable Selina's campaign victory. With the support of his uncle, he wins this seat, but cannot prevent Selina's defeat. During his time as a congressman, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which he continued to use as an excuse to pity the voters after fighting it. In the course of the sixth season, he ensures the shutdown of the government after he and some confidants refuse to raise the debt ceiling in the US budget again. At the same time, he becomes engaged to Shawnee Tanz, the daughter of an important financier, and converts to Judaism . At the end of the sixth season, his uncle strikes him from the nominee list and replaces him with his cousin Ezra. After being temporarily unemployed, he also runs for president.
  • Mike McLintock: The President's communications chief and therefore the direct channel to the press. In contrast to most of his colleagues, he is at work with relatively little commitment, for which he is regularly raised. In addition, he is rather immature, which is shown by the fact that he cannot handle money, for example, and is often ridiculed for his naive nature. In season 3 he marries the reporter Wendy Keegan, who is clearly superior to him. They later adopt an adopted daughter from China and have twins through surrogacy.
  • Sue Wilson: The Vice President's secretary, whose trademark is her very direct and sober manner. So she sees herself as the third most important person in the world. She keeps her post even after Selina loses the presidential campaign to Laura Montez, but does not appear in season 6.
  • Ben Cafferty: The White House Chief of Staff under President Hughes and Selina. Even if he shows a rather depressive and conservative behavior, he is popular with colleagues and is even feared, while he does not care much for his colleagues himself. He always sees the worst in most things and often evades responsibility when problems arise. He seems to have a weakness for Asian women, having been married to them several times. Until the end of the fifth season he remains one of Selina's most important confidants, but after the defeat joins Kent Jonah's staff and later turns his back on them.
  • Kent Davison: The chief strategist of the White House, who stands out for his pedantic and robotic behavior. He often corrects his fellow human beings and throws figures and statistics around him almost obsessively, or has surveys commissioned on a wide variety of topics. The opinion of the people of Selina and her daughter is very important to him. He is a member of a motorcycle club and has a wife who is deaf and dumb. Together with Ben he joins Jonah's staff in season 6 only to end up supporting Selina again.
  • Richard Splett: He joins the Meyer team in season three, later becoming Amy's and Jonah's assistant. Above all, he impresses with his incompetence. After Selina finds out he has a PhD in franchise, she promotes him and Jonah becomes his assistant in return. After Jonah is elected to Congress, Richard becomes its chief of staff. After Selina's electoral defeat, he will take over this post in her foundation in season 6.

Minor characters

Personal characters

  • Catherine Meyer: Selina's daughter, who have a rather tense relationship as their life choices often have a direct impact on their mother's career. She has very liberal views that do not always conform to those of her mother and is rather unpopular with the people. She later studied film studies and in the meantime has relationships with a man of Arab origin and a lobbyist, each of which has a serious impact on her mother's team. During the fifth season she makes a documentary about her mother's work and environment and falls in love with the Secret Service agent Marjorie Palmiotti, with whom she later enters into a relationship. In season 6, she becomes pregnant with Richard's baby through artificial insemination and gives birth to a son at the end of the season. Furthermore, she was given generous consideration in her late grandmother's will, which is why she has to support her mother financially after the end of her presidency and lets her live with her and Marjorie in their townhouse. At the beginning she shows a rather shy behavior and regularly lets her mother give her instructions. In the course of the series she gains self-confidence and can assert herself much better against others.
  • Ted Cullen: Selina's former short-term affair in season one. She becomes pregnant by him, but has a miscarriage. Gary has to end the relationship at Selina's request after she is convinced that Ted wants to ditch them.
  • Ed Webster: Amy's interim boyfriend, but who has to line up behind her career.
  • Dana: Gary's possessive girlfriend in seasons 2 and 3. They're starting a cheese company. Gary later has to end the relationship at Selina's request.
  • Andrew Meyer: Selina's ex-husband and Catherine's father. Despite the divorce, he has some sort of on-off relationship with Selina, much to the displeasure of her team, who see him as one of her weaknesses. He is a very successful businessman, even if he makes no secret of using Selina's power for his career. In return, she often tied up with him again, hoping for funding for her campaigns. In the course of the series it is shown that he is often unfaithful to Selina and has short-term relationships with various women.
  • Wendy Keegan: Mike's wife who is a reporter and is superior to him. They later adopt a baby and also have twins through surrogacy.
  • Charlie Baird: He's a wealthy Wall Street boss that Selina starts dating in season 5. Later it becomes a more forced relationship, as Leon West learns about the relationship. Unlike many others, he has a good relationship with Gary. Later, presidential candidate Bill O'Brian promised him the post of finance minister should he win. Because of the tie, O'Brian's runner-up, Montez, becomes the new president. Charlie accepts this offer.
  • Marjorie Palmiotti: She becomes Selina's bodyguard from the Secret Service in season 5 and looks very similar to her from behind, which initially leads to some confusion. She later enters into a relationship with Catherine, marries her and is expecting a child with her, who will be born at the end of season 6. In season 6 she takes on a leading position in the Meyer Foundation. Her trademark is her calm, sometimes emotionless, very rational manner. Her liberal views strongly associate her with Catherine, which at the same time removes her from Selina.

Politician

  • Rep. Roger Furlong: An ambitious congressman from Ohio . He often railed against the Vice President's office and regularly threatened investigations. He has very vulgar and hurtful language and does not try to cover up his offensive statements. Often his insults are aimed at his assistant Will, who nevertheless seems very loyal to him. He lost the gubernatorial election in Ohio in season 1, but later supported Selina in her presidential campaign. In season 6 he becomes the leader of the minority faction in Congress.
  • Will: The assistant to Congressman Furlong. He is often exposed to insults from his boss. He is married. So his boss invites him and his wife in season 5 to their wedding day. A kind of running gag is that, despite the terror on the part of his boss, he never seems offended, all those around him like him and always greet him kindly.
  • Speaker Jim Marwood: He's the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In season 5, he helps Laura Montez to the presidency by rejecting a new vote in the House of Representatives .
  • Rep. Owen Pierce: A socially awkward Congressman who competes against Selina for president. He is portrayed as extremely incompetent. He has a great admiration for Selina.
  • Senator Andrew Doyle: He starts out as a Senator and later becomes Vice President under Selina. Above all, he is struggling with being left out as Vice President. He takes revenge for this by giving Laura Montez his vote. She later makes him her foreign minister. Similar to Furlong, he has a very loose mouth and is very conservative.
  • Teddy Sykes: Vice President Doyle's chief of staff.
  • Senator Bill O'Brian: A Senator from Arizona . He competes against Selina in the presidential election campaign. After the historic tie in the election, his vice-presidential candidate Laura Montez becomes the new president, as Senator Doyle votes her and not Selina
  • Senator Tom James: A well-respected Senator who becomes Selina's vice-presidential candidate after Doyle is unwilling to take the post again after the election. He is very popular with his colleagues as well as with the voters, but soon messes with Selina after he wants to take over the Ministry of Finance in addition to the vice-presidency. As a result of the electoral tie, if Selina won, he would become vice president of Selina, like Montez for O'Brian. This only annoys Selina even more. In addition, if he wins, he suggests her as his vice-president, but this does not happen due to the defeat.
  • President Laura Montez: She is a former New Mexico senator who is Bill O'Brian's runner-up for the running of the presidency. After there is a tie in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, she becomes president as a vice-presidential candidate, according to the constitution. Also because Doyle gives her his voice.
  • Danny Chung: He's the governor of Minnesota at the start of the series . As a young war veteran, he does not shy away from using precisely this fact to make political capital out of it. After the president resigns, he is one of Selina's greatest competitors for the presidency. One running gag is that he mentions his military heroism in every scene he appears in, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart . After Doyle is not available again as a vice-presidential candidate, Selina tries to win him over. However, he refuses and she is forced to run with Tom James.
  • General Goerge Maddox: The former defense minister who is running against Selina for president. Like Danny Chung, he is also rejecting the vice-presidency under Selina, with whom he has a very tense relationship anyway.
  • Bill Ericsson. One of the most gifted campaign managers who initially held this office for the candidate Joe Thornhill. With no prospect of success in the latter, he later joins Selina's team as the new head of communications. After the Meyer team faces a scandal in which medical data was stolen in order to deliberately address grieving parents, Ericsson is made a scapegoat and then arrested. The prison sentence is later suspended and he does everything to damage Selina's political career.
  • Joe Thrornhill: A former baseball coach and presidential candidate. He often uses sports analogies to explain politics. Although it does well in the polls at first, it loses momentum later.
  • Bob Bradley: A well-respected political advisor that Selina brings on board in Season 5 to oversee the Nevada vote recount. He's not of much help, however, as he has Alzheimer's, as it turns out later. His nickname is "The Eagle".
  • Jeff Kane: Jonah's uncle and influential New Hampshire politician, known as the "kingmaker" because he controls much of the New England electorate. He helps his nephew Jonah with his candidacy for Congress, although he openly tells him that he is just his puppet and that one day his other nephew Ezra will take the seat.
  • Ambassador Mohammed bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Jaffar: He is the Qatari Ambassador to the United States that Selina has an affair with in Season 6. After announcing her new candidacy for president, she has to end her relationship with him, which affects her emotionally.

Other

  • Sidney Purcell: An oil lobbyist trying to gain power through the Selina Vice Presidency. In season 4, Dan worked for him for a while until he was fired. He too has a very vulgar and ambiguous language. For the most part, it seems to be just about his profit.
  • Leon West: A Washington Post reporter who does not have a good reputation on Selina's team. He's often in contact with Mike, with whom he has some kind of personal feud. He always succeeds in eliciting critical information. In the meantime, he has been taken hostage in Iran and Selina reluctantly has to negotiate his release.
  • Minna Häkkinen: In season 2, she is the Prime Minister of Finland , whom Selina met on a visit abroad. She later held various political offices. She worked for the IMF for a while and later became a diplomat who mediated in various conflicts. Selina is not very enthusiastic about her, which she absolutely does not share with her and even regards her as a friend. Minna regularly shows her ignorance about America and speaks very brazenly and directly about personal matters.
  • Lee Patterson: She was a very competent but nondescript person on Selina's staff. So, none of her team could remember her name. After she is released, she publishes the incriminating documents showing that grieving parents were contacted on the basis of stolen medical records.
  • Jane McCabe: A news anchor for "CBS This Morning" and therefore the boss of Dan in season 6.

Cast and dubbing

Main cast

The table lists the actors, their role names, their affiliation with the main cast (●) or with the secondary and guest actors (•) per season, the number of episodes with appearances and the German voice actors .

Season
role actor 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th Ep. Voice actor
Selina Meyer Julia Louis-Dreyfus ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Sabine Arnhold
Amy Brookheimer Anna Chlumsky ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Annina Braunmiller (season 1–5)
Lara Trautmann (from season 6)
Gary Walsh Tony Hale ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Klaus-Peter Grap
Dan Egan Reid Scott ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Karlo Hackenberger
Jonah Ryan Timothy Simons ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Peter Lontzek
Mike McLintock Matt Walsh ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 65 Frank Röth
Sue Wilson Sufe Bradshaw ● ● ● ● ● • 49 Nadine Zaddam
Kent Davison Gary Cole • • ● ● ● ● 55 Erich Rauker
Ben Cafferty Kevin Dunn • ● ● ● ● ● 54 Frank-Otto Schenk (season 1–6)
Bodo Wolf (season 7)
Richard Splett Sam Richardson • ● ● ● ● 40 Andi Krösing

Supporting cast

role actor Episodes Voice actor
Andrew Doyle Phil Reeves 1.02–1.04, 2.05, 2.10, 3.03, 3.08, 3.10–4.06, 5.01, 5.05, 5.09–5.10, 6.03, 7.07 Kaspar Eichel
Leon West Brian Huskey 1.02, 1.06, 2.06, 3.03, 4.04, 5.02, 5.06, 6.08-7.07 Rainer Fritzsche
Catherine Meyer Sarah Sutherland 1.03, 2.02, 2.06, 2.08, 3.03, 3.06, 3.08, 3.10, 4.02, 4.04-4.05, 4.07-7.07 Kathrin Neusser
Sidney Purcell Peter Grosz 1.03, 1.05, 2.07, 2.09, 4.04-4.07, 5.01, 5.06, 5.09, 7.05 Jaron Lowenberg
Danny Chung Randall Park 1.04, 2.01, 2.04, 2.07, 2.09-2.10, 3.02, 3.04, 3.08, 3.10, 4.05, 5.09, 6.10 Jeffrey Wipprecht
Bill O'Brian Brad Leland 1.04, 2.10, 4.07, 4.10, 5.02-5.03 Jürgen Kluckert
Ted Cullen Andy Buckley 1.04, 1.06-1.07 Uwe Büschken
Roger Furlong Dan Bakkedahl 1.10-2.02, 2.05, 2.07, 2.10, 3.08, 4.01, 4.05, 5.02-5.04, 5.07, 5.09-6.02, 6.06-6.07, 6.09-6.10, 7.02, 7.05, 7.07 Bernd Vollbrecht
Want Nelson Franklin 1.10–2.02, 2.07, 2.10, 5.02–5.04, 5.07, 5.09–6.02, 6.06–6.07, 6.09–6.10, 7.05, 7.07 Julien Haggége
Sophie Brookheimer Mary Catherine Garrison 2.01-2.02, 4.06, 5.02, 5.05, 7.01, 7.03 Sandrine Mittelstädt
Dana Jessica St. Clair 2.01, 2.04, 2.10, 3.02 Dascha Lehmann
George Maddox Isiah Whitlock Jr. 2.03, 3.01-3.02, 3.05-3.06, 3.08, 4.05 Dieter Memel
cliff Craig Cackowski 2.03, 5.01-5.04 Jens-Uwe Bogadtke
Speaker Jim Marwood David Rasche 2.04, 2.07, 4.01, 5.06-5.07, 5.09-5.10, 6.07 Reinhard Kuhnert
Minna Hakkinen Sally Phillips 2.05, 3.06, 5.08, 6.03, 7.06 Antje von der Ahe
Andrew Meyer David Pasquesi 2.06, 2.08, 2.10, 3.06, 5.04, 5.08-5.09, 6.01-6.02, 6.05, 6.10, 7.03, 7.05-7.07 Nicolas King
Ed Webster Zach Woods 2.06, 2.10, 3.05 Hannes Maurer
Wendy Keegan Kathy Najimy 3.01-3.02, 3.08-3.09, 4.07, 5.03-5.05, 5.10-6.01, 7.03-7.04 Almut Zydra
Bill Ericsson Diedrich Bader 3.05, 3.09, 4.01-4.04, 4.06-5.01, 5.06-5.09, 6.09-7.01, 7.04, 7.07 Matti Klemm
Joe Thornhill Glenn Wrage 3.05, 3.08-3.10 Roman Kretschmer
Owen Pierce Paul Fitzgerald 3.08, 4.02, 4.05, 4.08 Thomas Schmuckert
Mrs. Ryan Nancy Lenehan 3.09, 5.05-5.06, 5.08, 6.10-7.02, 7.04-7.07 Eva-Maria Werth
Teddy Sikes Patton Oswalt 4.01-4.05, 5.07, 6.10-7.04 Jens Wawrczeck
Karen Collins Lennon Parham 4.04-4.05, 4.10, 5.03-5.04, 5.06, 7.05 Gerit Kling
Tom James Hugh Laurie 4.05-5.02, 5.04-5.07, 5.09-5.10, 6.07, 7.01-7.04, 7.07 Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Greg Hart Scott Adsit 4.10-5.01, 5.08-5.09, 6.08, 7.03-7.04, 7.07 Peter Flechtner
Marjorie Palmiotti Clea DuVall 5.01, 5.03-7.07 Peggy Sander
Candi Caruso Morgan Smith 5.01, 5.06-5.07, 5.10, 6.07-6.08 Lisa Braun
Wayne Wayne Wilderson 5.01-5.03, 5.06, 5.09-5.10, 6.04, 7.03, 7.05
Laura Montez Andrea Savage 5.02-5.03, 5.10, 6.04, 6.06-6.08, 7.07 Tanja Fornaro
Buddy Calhoun Matt Oberg 5.02, 5.04, 5.07, 5.10-6.03, 7.01, 7.03-7.07 Armin Schlagwein
Charlie Baird John Slattery 5.02-5.04, 5.06, 5.09-5.10 Stefan Staudinger
Bob Bradley Martin Mull 5.02-5.04, 5.10 Bodo Wolf
Ambassador Al Jaffar Usman Ally 5.04, 5.10, 6.06, 6.08-6.10 Samir Fox
Monica Kimball Lauren Bowles 5.04, 5.08-5.09, 6.10 Schaukje Könning
George Huntzinger Brian Doyle-Murray 5.04, 5.09, 6.05 Horst lamp
Jeff Kane Peter MacNicol 5.05–5.09, 6.09, 7.04, 7.06–7.07 Tobias Master
MP Bill Jaeger Seth Morris 5.05, 5.07, 6.03, 6.06, 6.09, 7.07
MP Graves Phil LaMarr 5.07, 5.09-5.10, 6.09 Sven Gerhardt
President Lu Chi-Jang Tzi Ma 5.08, 5.10., 6.05, 7.06 Wolfgang Condrus
Rep. Clark JP Manoux 5.09–6.01, 6.03, 6.07–6.09, 7.03
MP Gellardi Jessica Chaffin 5.10, 6.06–6.09 Claudia Gáldy
Jane McCabe Margaret Colin 6.01–6.02, 6.04–6.06, 6.08–7.01, 7.07 Arianne Borbach
Stevie Paul Scheer 6.01–6.02, 6.04–7.01 Michael Deffert
Sherman dance Jonathan Hadary 6.04–6.05, 6.08–6.10, 7.04, 7.07 Stefan Gossler
Shawnee dance Mary Holland 6.05–6.09 Patrizia Calucci
Brie Ramachandran India de Beaufort 6.05–6.09, 7.03 Esra Vural
Keith Quinn Andrew Daly 7.01, 7.03–7.07 Stefan Krause
Michelle York Rhea Seehorn 7.01–7.04, 7.07 Juliane Kindler
Beth Ryan Emily Pendergast 7.01-7.07 Ilona Brokowski
Lloyd Hennick John Carroll Lynch 7.01, 7.04, 7.06 Detlef Bierstedt
Kemi Talbot Toks Olagundoye 7.02–7.05, 7.07 Isabelle Höpfner

Guest actor

The important guest actors include:

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

Season 4:

Season 5:

Season 6:

Season 7

Charisma

United States

After Armando Inanucci and Simon Blackwell wrote the pilot episode in 2011, HBO ordered a full first season. The premiere took place on April 22, 2012 on the US cable channel HBO . On June 10, 2012, the broadcast of the first season ended after eight broadcast episodes. In late April 2012, Veep was renewed by HBO for a second season with another ten episodes. HBO began broadcasting the second season on April 14 and ended on June 23, 2013. In early May 2013, the production of a third season with ten episodes was announced. The airing of this third season began on April 6th and ended on June 11th, 2014 with a double episode. Just two weeks later, HBO extended the series to include a fourth season, which began airing April 12, 2015. In April 2015, HBO extended the series for a fifth season.

German-speaking area

The German-language premiere of the first season sent the Pay TV transmitter Sky Atlantic on 13 November 2012 to 1 January 2013. The second season was beaming the station from September 4 to November 6, 2013 from. Season 3 aired on Sky Atlantic HD from September 10 to November 5, 2014.

DVD and Blu-ray publishing

United States
  • Season 1 was released on March 26, 2013
  • Season 2 was released on March 25, 2014
  • Season 3 was released on March 31, 2015
  • Season 4 was released on April 19, 2016
  • Season 5 was released on April 11, 2017
  • Season 6 was released on September 12, 2017
United Kingdom
  • Season 1 was released on June 3, 2013
  • Season 2 was released on June 2, 2014
  • Season 3 was released on March 30, 2015
  • Season 4 was released on April 18, 2016
  • Season 5 was released on April 10, 2017
  • Season 6 was released on September 11, 2017
Germany
  • Season 1 was released on May 24, 2013
  • Season 2 was released on October 23, 2014
  • Season 3 was released on April 2, 2015
  • Season 4 was released on May 19, 2016
  • Season 5 was released on April 27, 2017
  • Season 6 was released on November 23, 2017

particularities

  • During Selina's tenure as Vice President, President Hughes is mentioned frequently but never appears. In season one, this is used in particular as a running gag , as Selina asks her secretary Sue in almost every episode if the president called, which she always denies.
  • Selina has great problems remembering names.
  • Governor Danny Chung mentions his army time and heroism, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart , in each of his conversations .
  • At no time in the series is it mentioned which parties the characters belong to. However, there are some indications that Selina belongs to the Democrats , as the states she won appear on the election graphics in seasons 4 and 5 in their party color blue. In addition, almost all members of their staff have privately liberal views, even if, for opportunistic reasons, they sometimes take the opposite.

criticism

“Sure, one could blame Armando Iannucci for a certain lack of originality. On the other hand, The Thick of It, as a satire on everyday political life, is such a grandiose concept that there cannot be enough consequences. No matter where they come from and what title they run under. Veep delivers a very enjoyable half an hour with the pilot, which shows a Julia Louis-Dreyfus in top form. In the future, the series could only get a little bit more snappy. "

- Christian Junklewitz : Serienjunkies.de

Awards

Julia Louis-Dreyfus received the Emmy Award for best female lead in a comedy series for five years in a row for her performance as Selina Meyer .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Number of episodes broadcast so far with appearances in leading, supporting and guest roles
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