Veep Season 3

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 3 was the season where Veep graduated from promising satire to essential television. The perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and Metacritic 86 reflected a press consensus that the series had found its singular voice: a comedy of political catastrophe where everyone is too self-interested to recognise their own incompetence. Brandon Nowalk at The A.V. Club wrote it had 'become the clearest heir to 30 Rock and Arrested Development.' David Hiltbrand at The Philadelphia Inquirer called it 'the sharpest Beltway satire the medium has ever seen.' Louis-Dreyfus's Selina Meyer was now one of television's great comic creations.

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The Room

Season Over Season

The leap from Season 2 to Season 3 is the show finding its ceiling - the satire sharpens, the ensemble is perfectly deployed, and the political nihilism becomes the joke rather than merely the backdrop.