Selina, surrounded by some incompetent allies, looks as a self-destructive person at first, but then the opportunity hits her and she emerges as a politician who is kind of a nightmare for any democracy. Self-centric Selina, as if her personality were there to reinforce her dwarf-like figure, is the face of many politicians of modern age, to the world who are merely a two dimensional cut-out deliberately nurtured with the help of the media.
She really doesn't value the people she relies on. Many a time she needs her bagman Gary to feed the information in her ears about the person she is talking with, even during the conversation with her own daughter. That is just pathetic.
Despite all these, undeserving and ungrateful Selina is not an evil like Underwood from House of Cards. S03E03 is a key episode for her journey, which shows her compromising with one thing she likes to care for to gain some advantages. It's not new in politics, but crossing the border of satire, it really hits hard. At one point, she is confronted by one of her most close allies, Amy, who tells her: "You have achieved nothing, apart from one thing. The fact that you are a woman means we will have no more women presidents, because we tried one and she fucking sucked!"
Like in every best sitcom, there is an eccentric character here; poor thing Jonah Ryan is hated by everyone. Always anxious Amy, a strange combination of "lacking self-worth and narcissism", is such a charm! Gary is stupidly blind worshiper of Selina. His innocence makes him sort of a wallflower in the deceitful environment. ("A 12 year boy trapped in the body of 12 year girl.") All the characters in VEEP are in such a fine balance. Hats off to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for pulling 'Selina' marvelously.
She really doesn't value the people she relies on. Many a time she needs her bagman Gary to feed the information in her ears about the person she is talking with, even during the conversation with her own daughter. That is just pathetic.
Despite all these, undeserving and ungrateful Selina is not an evil like Underwood from House of Cards. S03E03 is a key episode for her journey, which shows her compromising with one thing she likes to care for to gain some advantages. It's not new in politics, but crossing the border of satire, it really hits hard. At one point, she is confronted by one of her most close allies, Amy, who tells her: "You have achieved nothing, apart from one thing. The fact that you are a woman means we will have no more women presidents, because we tried one and she fucking sucked!"
Like in every best sitcom, there is an eccentric character here; poor thing Jonah Ryan is hated by everyone. Always anxious Amy, a strange combination of "lacking self-worth and narcissism", is such a charm! Gary is stupidly blind worshiper of Selina. His innocence makes him sort of a wallflower in the deceitful environment. ("A 12 year boy trapped in the body of 12 year girl.") All the characters in VEEP are in such a fine balance. Hats off to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for pulling 'Selina' marvelously.