There’s loads of great Armando stuff: The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You, I’m Alan Partridge etc. Veep isn’t on here yet, but you need to see The Thick of It
I looked it up and it’s not on Netflix. I understand that Malcolm is the main character in that series.
I didn’t quite get this episode. What was Dan so worried about?
The thing they highlighted in the “previously on”, where the VP says she can’t know what he knows. I was never entirely sure what that storyline was about; at some point it was implied that Dan did something offscreen to manipulate a vote, like by making a backroom promise or something.
After the President killed one of Selina’s pet policies (Clean Jobs, probably, since that’s all they talk about), her bill no longer had a sponsor to bring it to the Senate floor (and presumably would have been vetoed had it passed). Dan hatched a plan to have Sen MacCauley introduce certain portions of the legislation as an amendment to a budget bill. The amendment vote was split 50-50, leaving Selina to break the tie - and left with the choice of supporting what she believed in and campaigned on, or following the President’s wishes. She chose to defeat the amendment.
While nothing Dan did was probably illegal, exposing the fact that the VP’s office was involved in re-introducing legislation that the President intended to kill, and attaching it to a budget bill to force his hand on signing it into law, is a political disaster for everyone in the VP’s office. Thus, if called before a hearing, Dan would have to choose between sinking his career (and possibly Selina’s career) or committing perjury and running the risk of sinking his career and being sent to jail.
I just watched the last episode. Nice to see some scenes set in Cleveland, although other than the skyline establishing shot, none of the views out the hotel windows were of Cleveland (Baltimore, I assume). I was more annoyed than amused by the backbiting and small-mindedness of the Veep’s staff. The candidate for governor of Ohio was also a hateful shit.
I guess I’ve realized that I wince more than I laugh when I watch this show. Don’t think I’ll come back for the second season.