Julia Louis-Dreyfus is magnificent, and still furiously amoral, as the black-hearted political comedy enters its final term in office
As our own house of cards sways precariously, can Veep (Sky Atlantic) still find humour in terrible politicians getting away with it, no matter how incompetent or how untouched by conscience? Of course it can. This is masterful comedy, packed out with the darkest of zingers, its black heart buoyed only by the delighted embrace of its silly, clown-like brilliance.
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus was diagnosed with breast cancer, Veep went on hiatus for her to receive treatment, and showrunner David Mandel (who took over from the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, in its fifth season) rewrote what had been planned. “Had we shot the show we had written ... I believe it would have seemed out of touch,” he told the New Yorker in December, adding, with a dry, Veep-ish flourish: “What I’m saying is the cancer was a good thing.”
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