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[Perfect Blue]

Lmao dope af episode. Dad and I were laughing most at Mike's situation.

 

[Cornballer]

 

[Herr Schwarz]

"You look like you should be underground worshiping a nuclear bomb."

"He can read the newspaper in the toilet by the light of his own shit"

 

[dead souls]

I really feel like the show continuing on in this manner is a bit of a shark jump. The premise would be much better suited to a one off, series concluding TV movie or something.

Anyway, I thought the premiere was just okay. It's as much of a cartoon as last season and I only chuckled a couple of times.

Agreed. I didn't hate it, but I sure didn't love it. I'm not really looking forward to a season (or more) of the show like this.

I hope Silicon Valley is still great, since if it's not it'll be a long wait until Insecure comes back in July for HBO to have a great scripted show to watch.

 

[CypherSignal]

I laughed a few times, but I kinda wish I didn't go into this knowing it's a whole new team of writers. Probably gonna make it hard for me to just sit back and watch without over analysing every scene.

Did anyone find Andrew to almost be a caricature at this point?

I was kind of the same way going into season 5 with Iannucci leaving the show - which at the start seemed like there was way more sex and insults than normal - but it still got into a pretty good groove.

 

[Apple Turnover]

Website for the charity.

https://www.meyerfundforadultliteracy.com/welcome/

Nearly spat out my drink when i read this line:

Spoiler

President Selina Meyer’s own daughter Catherine’s lifelong struggle with dyslexia forced her to become a dance major and has left her with impaired communication skills to this day.

 

[daviyoung]

I love this program but the last couple seasons were weak.

UK gets the show on April 18. Looking forward to it.

 

[Megasoum]

I lost it at "Hey Congressman Powder" haha


In case you don't get it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114168/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[Dr.Acula]

The continued fall of Dan Danny Egan continues to be one of the most tragic character arcs in all of fiction. It's practically Greek.

 

[Dice//]

I think the comedy has actually gotten better, but I'm not really into the arc.

If this is the season to make "her legacy" though, I'm curious with where they will go. Indeed, hitting up the presidency again doesn't seem like the hottest idea.

 

[Apple Turnover]

Far flung prediction: Selina ends up as

Spoiler

Jonah's

Veep

 

[dLMN8R]

I'm absolutely loving the direction of this new season. So many funny moments from this first episode.

Far flung prediction: Selina ends up as

Spoiler

Jonah's

Veep

OMG

If he becomes president.....

 

[TripOpt55]

I'm not really sure how I feel about the new direction. It didn't really work for me this episode, but maybe it will grow on me after a few episodes. It didn't help that it wasn't a particularly funny episode by the show's standards.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I'm not really looking forward to a season (or more) of the show like this.

Sepinwall said that after last season ended, the new showrunner told him that he felt that there were "at least two years worth of stories about Selina as an ex-president". So.

Lmao dope af episode. Dad and I were laughing most at Mike's situation.

The bit with "the dogs" was so dumb though... :/

 

[Vyer]

Dan - Jonah was great of course, but I also enjoyed Ben at Uber

 

[Cornballer]

Overall, I thought the jokes were solid during the premiere. It did feel a little disjointed with the altered premise and the cast in their separate lives. Hopefully they find a way to keep them bouncing off of each other regularly as the different combinations were what made a lot of the humor for me in previous seasons.

Dan - Jonah was great of course, but I also enjoyed Ben at Uber

 

[tearsintherain]

I'm in for the rapid fire jokes, i spit out my water at least a dozen times in just one episode and that is a rare thing to find on TV nowadays

Jonah looks to be shaping up as the MVP of the season, just everything about him is absolutely hilarious now

 

[TTG]

1. Dan-ny was on fire
2. Catherine's cry face
3. Amy's sex scene

Amy was vicious, but a lot of those jokes were in the preview. Gary is borderline insufferable at this point, if he's only interacting with Selina it's not going to work.

My feeling of the post Ianucci Veep persists, they have done really well with surface level comedy and banter, but haven't moved the characters in any direction past that.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Overall, I thought the jokes were solid during the premiere. It did feel a little disjointed with the altered premise and the cast in their separate lives. Hopefully they find a way to keep them bouncing off of each other regularly as the different combinations were what made a lot of the humor for me in previous seasons.

LOL @ that gif.

That senator/congressman is really having sex with Amy? That scene was

Spoiler

kind of hot.

Guessing she's sleeping with him for her career only.

 

[Herr Schwarz]

1. Dan-ny was on fire
2. Catherine's cry face
3. Amy's sex scene

Amy was vicious, but a lot of those jokes were in the preview. Gary is borderline insufferable at this point, if he's only interacting with Selina it's not going to work.

My feeling of the post Ianucci Veep persists, they have done really well with surface level comedy and banter, but haven't moved the characters in any direction past that.

Gary and Selinas co-dependent relationship is hilarious. They're both broken lol

I don't know how Selina is gonna make a come back from this and I wouldn't care if Jonah took the head honcho role as Veep later on if they were gonna do some serious long haul vision for the series.

 

[Y2Kev]

I thought Selina was too mean. The constant disregard for Catherine in prior seasons was one thing but she seemed more actively hostile.

 

[Chase17]

I think my favorite part was the it's only 7 o'clock bit

 

[Socreges]

I thought Selina was too mean. The constant disregard for Catherine in prior seasons was one thing but she seemed more actively hostile.

I'm assuming that's deliberate. She's bitter and miserable.

 

[RoKKeR]

I crack up every time Selina says "I hate this fucking country" or some variation of that, so this episode gets a thumbs up from me.

Setup still feels weird but I'm sure it'll come into its own.

 

[Leunam]

Richard Splett can do no wrong. Of all the things in this episode him getting the name wrong cracked me up super hard for some reason.

 

[Mike Works]

Just caught it, was fucking hilarious. The idea of a romantic partner asking Amy to talk normally in order to talk dirty is god damn great.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Pretty great start. They are really going all-in on the Selina-Hillary thing

 

[Bladenic]

So Sue is definitely gone?

 

[BigAT]

So Sue is definitely gone?

From Sepinwall's review:

"Sufe Bradshaw had to take the season off due to a personal matter, so we don’t get to see where Sue landed. But I will assume she is, as usual, doing better than the rest of them combined."

 

[diaspora]

I thought Selina was too mean. The constant disregard for Catherine in prior seasons was one thing but she seemed more actively hostile.

They seemed to have looped back to S1 where she was a powerless loser but swapped the ridiculous cowardice for cruelty.

Still hilarious though.

 

[TTG]

I thought Selina was too mean. The constant disregard for Catherine in prior seasons was one thing but she seemed more actively hostile.

That's what I mean about doing well with surface level jokes, but losing subtlety and character development. In the first season, Catherine is passed around like a hassle and Selina has no time for her, but there's a nominal attempt and when she placates her by lying about the hurricane name change it works. Same thing when she forces Amy to claim the pregnancy is hers later, that was ugly and profoundly cold at the time, now it would be like 1 of 5 things Selina does in an episode. You reduce characters to a couple of familiar notes and the soul goes out of the show a bit.

Also, can we get the band back together again already? I miss this.

 

[Cornballer]

- JLD on Kimmel last night

Includes a brief clip from next week's episode.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I'm on season 4 (binging this show) and holy fuck, I was laughing so hard I started drooling when Jonah told Kent he was being touched by Teddy and realized he was on speakerphone.

Fucking dying right now!

 

[Cornballer]

New episode tonight:

Library

Spoiler

Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) attends the opening of President Hughes' library. Jonah (Timothy Simons) gets advice on how to rise in the political ranks; Dan (Reid Scott) suffers through Jane's (Margaret Colin) whims; Amy (Anna Chlumsky) releases an attack ad.

 

[Chris R]

Richard is killing it this episode

edit: Grand'maam & Love puddle, so good

edit 2: first chubby, this episode is so awesome

 

[sangreal]

I see they're going full Hillary

 

[vatstep]

This episode was brutal.

 

[BigAT]

That dyslexia donation joke killed me.

 

[reggieandTFE]

The plot is obviously not a fever on this show so I don't mind if they're weaker, but Selina being attacked for not embracing her husband's mistress is really really stretching it.

 

[sangreal]

The plot is obviously not a fever on this show so I don't mind if they're weaker, but Selina being attacked for not embracing her husband's mistress is really really stretching it.

That is exactly what happened to Hillary Clinton, who has been called an enabler and worse. It's not a stretch at all

 

[Flying0Dutchman]

the episode was funny, but i hope it doesn't take too long to get everyone back together. The characters on the show are great but the shows at its best when they play off each other.

 

[Cornballer]

- Onion A|V Club review
- Onion A|V Club interview: Veep’s Timothy Simons is aware he looks “like a 6-foot 5-inch dick”
- Promo for next week’s episode (please spoiler tag any discussion)

 

[Vyer]

Furlong was on fire

 

[reggieandTFE]

That is exactly what happened to Hillary Clinton, who has been called an enabler and worse. It's not a stretch at all

Hillary was attacked by Smith college feminists?

 

[sangreal]

Hillary was attacked by Smith college feminists?

Are you always this pedantic? She has been attacked by feminists for not defending Bill's paramours. Being from Smith college had nothing to do with your post or mine

 

[Hazmat]

Hillary was attacked by Smith college feminists?

Sometimes things are exaggerated for comedic effect on television. Hillary Clinton absolutely caught shit for not being a fan of the women her husband fucked behind her back. Donald Trump invited as many of them as still wanted attention to the second debate to make Hillary look like a bitch and to distract from an audio recording where he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

Anyway, I enjoyed this episode a lot more than last week's. I'm still not getting much out of Amy's stuff though.

 

[tearsintherain]

A better example would be Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's aide and Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner's wife, who has been attacked on all sides for all kinds of things like using her marriage as a political prop, for trying to make her marriage work, for not trying to make her marriage work, for supporting Weiner, and even attacked by President Trump on whether her marriage is a national security issue.

Episode was on fire again for me, just rapid fire jokes non stop. Its one of the few shows around I can think of that delivers so many jokes that I can't even catch them all on one viewing. Archer used to be like that

I thought I wasn't gonna be a fan of how absolutely idiotic Jonah Ryan has become, like almost a caricature of a human being, but I gotta admit his dates were incredibly funny. "I'll need to see pics of your mom... front and back..." holy shit Jonah.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

That was way better than the premiere - lotta laughs in that one. The affair texting bit followed by Gary going insane was just great.

Also, "World's bitchiest mime"

 

[dead souls]

That was way better than the premiere - lotta laughs in that one.

Almost word for word what I came in here to post. This was a damn good episode.

 

[Santiako]

That was a fantastic episode.