TV

America Is Getting “More Disgusting By The Second” In The Trailer For The Final Season Of ‘Veep’

Checks out, tbh.

by Joseph Earp  19 February 2019
The trailer for the final season of Veep is here

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Satirical shows like Veep are facing a strange problem in our confusing, utterly bonkers Trump era — namely that it’s getting increasingly difficult to offer up satire that’s more entertaining and horrifying than the real news.

Just look at misfires like Our Cartoon President, an animated satire of the Trump family. Such comedic swipes simply cannot keep up with the pace nor intensity of the bilious nonsense pouring out of the mouth of the leader of the free world.

After all, not even a room of the most intelligent and switched-on comedy writers in the world would have been able to predict that the President might serve athletes a buffet of McDonald’s, or that he’d use his Twitter platform to become that weird uncle who still forwards you chain letters.

But in an attempt to deal with the problem of Trump, Armando Iannucci’s excellent Veep has successfully walked a pretty fine line between acknowledging our bonkers political climate without feeling necessarily beholden to it.

Case in point: the recently-released trailer for the show’s final season, dropping at the end of March.

Of course, you’d never mistake either Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, keeper of our hearts) or the dastardly and manipulative Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) as Trump clones, and the show never makes an easy joke about the state of America’s political dumpster fire.

But there are enough nods here and there to the real world that make it clear the Veep writer’s room isn’t entirely located under a rock: “I took a dump on the glass ceiling,” Selina joyfully proclaims in the trailer, presumably reading from cast-offs of Hillary Clinton’s planned Inauguration speech.

Oh, and then there’s the general tone of maddening, disgusting, unbelievable vapidity that will be familiar to literally any human being with a pulse. Who said that entertainment entirely needed to be an escape anyway?

Veep returns on March 31.