Election Night
- Episode aired Jun 14, 2015
- TV-MA
- 29m
Selina and her staff find their nerves growing frayed as each state result is called.Selina and her staff find their nerves growing frayed as each state result is called.Selina and her staff find their nerves growing frayed as each state result is called.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
- GoofsAbout ten minutes in, Caffrey's bag of potato chips keeps turning round (look for the white seam running vertically up the middle of the back).
- Quotes
Sue Wilson Friend: [Sue and her friend are watching the election results] What will you do if O'Brien wins? Set up an office with Selina at the Betty Ford Clinic?
Sue Wilson: No. I've applied for a job outside. Politics bores me. It bores the living *hell* out of me. God, it's boring.
[Amy is on screen]
Sue Wilson: Amy looks off her game. Distracted.
Sue Wilson Friend: I only really know Amy as the woman who rushed everywhere, clutching her phone like it contained her frozen embryos.
Sue Wilson: She's a workaholic. Works frantically to avoid dealing with her weird mix of lack of self worth and narcissism. I really like her!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015)
The comedy is based on incompetence, with the dialogue and delivery making it consistently funny, but strangely without a real sense of bite and cynicism. This remains the biggest issue for me, is that while it is fairly brutal with its characters, there is less of a cynicism and acerbic edge when it comes to the bigger institutions. To me this robs it of something, and while certainly not "gentle", it is does feel overly polished and refined in its delivery, characters and writing. Of course the quality in the series still means this produces a high quality comedy, with some really great lines, sharp delivery, and plenty of talent and fame in the cast and crew.
The third season had lifted its game somewhat, and I'm not sure the fourth season managed to sustain this; the narratives seemed rushed and not particularly cohesive as a season, while the lack of real edge and grit does continue to make it feel a bit too Corporate compared to what I always hope it will do with the ample targets and ammunition it has. I will of course return to Veep for the fifth season (even if Iannucci will not), because I am confident it will be funny and slick – I just wish I was more excited about it.
- bob the moo
- Aug 14, 2015
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- Runtime29 minutes