My only problem is that Selina said it at a private event in NYC instead of say accidently letting it slip & be overhead a footman during a state visit to the UK (though Borgen already did it).
Selena Meyer does seem to have gotten both nastier and dumber of late. I like the show but it’s increasingly unclear how she could plausibly have been elected to Senate in the first place.
I should note that the current US senate has at least a dozen blithering idiots. That a character like Selena Meyer got elected shouldn’t be a stretch.
Love the show, loved the cunt line. As for Meyers being too stupid to be elected senator, I could provide you a list of moron senators. Let’s not forget that there are members of the senate who routinely make comments that show that they don’t have a basic understanding of female biology or high school level science.
Or Secretary of State, either!
Wait, who are we talkin’ about?
Okay, I’ll walk back the dumbness, but we see over and over that when Meyer speaks publicly, she routinely embarrasses herself. Not a disqualification for American elected office either, I grant, but she’s also determinedly nasty to her personal staff…
Perhaps I’m being overly idealistic here.
Nancy Reagan began the conversation about AIDS in the 80s. Not many people talk about that.
We’re on CPT…“careful politician time.”
In defense of Chefguy, I am a big fan of Veep and like how they do push the envelope, but I went back to season 1 and am catching a couple of episodes nightly and I have to say that they didn’t go for quite this “easy shock” in earlier years. There would have at least been a couple of set up lines beforehand about how the Queen’s parade ruined someone’s vacation or something about corgies to lead into the joke. I’m the furthest thing from a prude, but I simply think that going for the shock sells the comedy short.
I’ve also noticed this on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me over the weekend. It just isn’t as funny when they do innuendo (and out the other) or oversexed stories. There is plenty of humor in the news to play upon, but when 3 stories/bits in a row rely on poor taste, it is just not as good of a show.
I’m not getting this. The line in question was near the end of the episode, which was already filled with such language and concepts. Is it just the C-word that makes the difference?
And I gotta say, this kind of language is not unusual for politicians. Get a bunch of drunken sailors and politicians together and the sailors will leave because they’re offended by the language.
I like the show, I thought the line was funny, it wasn’t simply thrown out there, the whole show created a context for it. I’m far more offended watching the news.
The point of that joke, IMO, that is Gary was really excited telling a story about the Queen and Selina just comes in and shits all over Gary, without even thinking about it, by her comment.
Remember she was the Vice President, and VPs have been known for saying idiotic things in public - Quayle, Biden, etc. As for being nasty to her personal staff, it seems like this is a normal thing in Veep’s universe. She’s not even close to being as nasty as Senator Furlong is.
Pleasingly, Richard Splett’s blog is a real thing.
Plenty of speculation about the true nature of Tom Bombadil, as you might expect.
Note that this episode was directed and co-produced by Chris Addison, who is from England (where “cunt” is a much more widely-used term) and one of the stars of Ianucci’s original series The Thick Of It (on which this series is loosely based) where the language was a blue and rapid-fire as a Smurf on speed.
Addison directed some episodes in the 2nd and 3rd seasons, so you might find that his episodes have some reflection of him where others are a reflection of their respective directors.
Also I am extremely attracted to Chris Addison. Extremely.
And season 1 of Veep–even if relatively restrained-- was not very good. I almost stopped watching the show (and am very happy that I remained a viewer).
Season 2 was, straight out of the starting gate, light-years ahead.
Perhaps it’s my lack of creativity, but I have a hard time seeing how a comedy would work with all the characters acting completely professional all the time.
…never mind.
Is the OP supposed to be a parody?
I dunno, the 1980s sitcom The Excluded Middle was pretty clever.
Of course Gary was really excited, he got to set at the grownups’ table and talk to people who weren’t treating him like a male lady’s maid.
Selina’s threat to cancel something faster than Anne Frank’s bat mitzvah! is one I’m surprised made it to air even on HBO.