Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her third Emmy in as many series for Veep and it's not hard to see why. She's more than just a funny lady here – though to be sure, you may not see anyone quite as funny on television today. Underneath her hapless vice president's pratfalls and panic attacks, she conveys a strange and abiding sadness. This figure is smart and capable. She wants to make the world a better place. She possesses the tools to leave the government in a better place than she found it. But by the very nature of the system in which she's trapped, all her assets come to naught. She can only flail about in a mad effort to protect her image and her standing, a process as hysterical as it is quietly troubling. Hit the jump for my full review. And, as the first season of Veep makes disturbingly clear, it may reflect how politics in Washington D.C. actually works. Once a fast-track Senator on the road to great things, Selina Meyer (Dreyfus) finds herself on the losing end of a presidential bid and shunted into the Vice President's office. Now stuck as the much maligned appendix of the federal government, she struggles with such monumental issues as a meet-and-greet at a local yogurt store, or a trip to Camden Yards to promote good nutrition. She and her staff – consisting of equal parts ambitious weasels, simpering yes-men and a few genuine good eggs just doing their best to stay above ...
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