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    The Most Pessimistic Episode of <em>Veep</em> Yet

    The show’s Season 6 finale highlighted the sometimes suffocating nature of American politics.
    by Megan Garber Jun 26, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: HBO

    This post contains minor spoilers through Season 6, Episode 10 of Veep.

    The finale of the last season of found Selina Meyer, mediocre politician and terrible person, laid low for her shortcomings. She had lost the U.S. presidency. The one real achievement she had accomplished during her brief stint in the Oval Office—brokering freedom for Tibet—had been, in the eyes of the American media, the doing of the new administration. The end of the show’s Season 5 finale was that found the now-former president thoroughly laid low, forced to listen to the inaugural functions as a political morality play, the sad ending for Meyer and her minions doubled in that way as a hopeful one for everyone else.

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