#OH SHE WAS ON VEEP i completely forgot

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bcs s3 thread pt 3

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veep rewatch - 3.04

Season Three, Episode Four 

aka - The One in Silicon Valley

Amy: That's right. That's 5,000 a ticket, and 10,000 to be at the Veep's table. 20,000 and Selina sits on your lap. Selina: What did you just say? Amy: No, not really. 

Selina seems very comfortable just taking children out of their mothers’ arms on the rope line? Is this actually a thing that happens on the campaign trail? Is it because as a woman she feels the need to highlight her maternal qualities in a subtle manner? I understand kissing babies or patting their heads��

Amy: We need to make that woman go away. And I don’t mean kill her. Mike: Kill her. 

Selina: The children are our future, Cassie. And they deserve an energy policy that protects the world, okay? The world in which there's a country called the United States of America.

I think this is our first glimpse of Selina this season in an outfit that is not red or black! 

I love cranky Dan left behind in DC.

Amy to Dan: You know, they say all babies are cute, but whoever "they" are should be stuck in a stroller and pushed into traffic. 

Ben: Dan, we need to break this Cassie bitch, the British dick who invented the Internet, and anybody in between.  Dan: Yeah, yeah. What about Jonah?  Ben: Jonah? Here. *Dan hands Ben the phone* Hey, fucking pencil neck. *Jonah throws his phone across the room* This bit is hysterical and I won’t hear otherwise 

Look at Dan pouring out his angsty campaign manager related feelings to Ben! He literally says “I know I can do it!” in the most sincere sounding tone of voice we ever hear from him! Iannucci-Dan basically wants to be Ben, after all…a flashier, sexier version who is on tv a lot more, but at the end of the day he’s trying to attain Ben’s level of influence and control in Washington. Ugh. I love the Ben-Kent-Dan dynamic so much. 

Of course, Ben is purposefully manipulating him, which just makes it all the more twistedly Machiavellian and perfectly DC. 

Dan: Hey, could we get two more? Ben: Yeah, and a couple of whiskey chasers? It's still Tuesday for another six minutes.

Amy in the best shade of green we’ve seen her in all season—this time a darker forest green.  Kathleen Felix Hager putting Anna Chlumsky in colors is the best costume decision to happen on this show. 

I also love Selina’s dress, with the yellow, grey, and brown color blocking.

Selina: You shouldn't make your first million until you're in your 30s. That's what Andrew and I did. It kept us completely grounded. 

Oh my god I totally forgot about Kent and the Legos. That’s going in a future BMTL chapter. 

Dan: Will someone please either kill the sound or kill that idiot? Whoa... what are you doing? Back on. Now. Idiot. Oh, God. My brain feels like it's being fucking circumcised. You know what? You... every day, I want you to remind me never to go drinking with Ben, all right? And you, get me a cheeseburger made of aspirin. Sue: Where are you going, Dan?  Dan: I am going to get some air, and then throw up in it.  Hungover!Dan in this episode was the inspiration for Dan’s behavior in the most recent chapter of BMTL. He’s so bitchy and cranky and whiny, I love it so much. 

I am also deeply obsessed with the fact that Dan has a regular poker game he attends for networking/gossip purposes and I absolutely cannot believe the show did not do more with this. All these funny and complex bits of his personality that Mandel just did away with. I am just going to put them all in BMTL.

Also Reid Scott’s poker face is incredibly sexy. Is other stuff happening in this episode? 

Melissa: This is our "Black Sky" ideas room. Selina: Uh-huh.  Melissa: Google has Blue Skies, but Craig doesn't stop at the atmosphere.  The parody tech babble is very funny.

Craig: You know, this is good. If things work all the time, it means we can't make them better.  Melissa: We have a saying here at Clovis - “Dare to Fail.” 

Craig: If it’s any consolation, a porn parody is a sure sign you’ve officially made it. Amy: Well technically, becoming vice president could count as making it.

Melissa: We see ourselves as very much post-tax.  Kent: I do have one fiscal question. Right now, you are showcasing other people's content for free. Once the content providers start charging you, do you have a plan for that? Craig: I think there's a misunderstanding. People want to work with us more than they want to be paid. That's a given. This whole conversation between Craig and Selina over the question of online platforms and politics hits really differently in 2020. 

The horror on everyone’s faces at the idea of Jonah becoming a millionaire. 

Jonah: You know what? Everybody who said that I would never make it... where the fuck are you now, huh?  His friend: Some of them are still in senior positions.  Jonah: Fuck you, Kent Davison! Fuck you, Mrs. Gravestock from the third grade! Fuck you, stepdad one and stepdad three!

Mike: Jonah asked me to come in with him. I’d be rich right now. I’d be handcuffed to a prick, but I’d be rich.  Selina: You would not. Absolutely not. So they buy it for four, so that gives you, what, one? After taxes, it's like 500,000. It's nothing. What are you gonna do with that?

Melissa: Would you work here and share an open plan environment with me? Amy: I’m flattered, but the sheer positivity of this place would break me. 

[noheroes-allowed]

week 4:

day 22: can’t believe I just typed the words “week 4″ :(, FINALLY worked on 4520. but also it was only part 1 out of 4 and I always fall into this false sense of security that the hw isn’t that bad but the problems usually get harder as the problems progress, ate an entire king size bar of Hershey's cookies and cream and I am mad, finished the five eps that are out for little fires everywhere. and I want to start killing eve. why did I start getting back into watching shows when classes resume. why am I this problematic to myself, chatted with my brother and my mom again, wishing veep was still airing so I could see the dc shenanigans/conspiracies during these corona times bc all the state refusals to reschedule primaries have got to be political but my brain isn’t informed enough to understand all the ulterior motives, now it’s 1:30am and I worked on problems 3 and 4. I don’t think I did everything correct but I still feel less stressed, albert finally ft me, secon pictures

day 23: first day of class! I’ve missed seeing strangers and I still enjoy Boyer’s lectures. it’s the only class I would willingly go to even if it was recorded, 4110 was boring lmao. I’m gonna just wait for her to upload and watch them at faster speed, worked on behavioral for hours and I had to redo one stupid problem like 5 times before I figured it out. and it took me like a full hour before understanding what to do for question one. that class makes me feel so stupid, played countries game on snap with albert, started killing eve. my timing sucks, both maggie and rochelle haven’t started the pset but jaja has and we’re gonna go over it at some point. idk if I should text keith about it bc I feel like I’m bothering him again rip

day 24: omfg. I woke up this morning and remembered I had a meeting at 11. then literally forgot it and didn’t remember until 12. I’m so dumb I was literally watching little fires everywhere and eating oatmeal when I was supposed to be on skype alfksndnfjfjf, didn’t do as much cti work as I should’ve, 4520 fucking took me like 6 hours and I’m mad bc I still can’t figure out one of them and all the other ones are so iffy, ate too much fried rice, also my leg is still cramping and I just wanna run :(

day 25: omg I had a dream about secon and it was senior year. and we were all meeting in warren before we had to leave. and keith didn’t walk in until the very last group aldksnfksjf. and he had this haircut where everything was short except for one section that was long and covered up a part of his face. and he didn’t talk to me and I got sad. skgjsnfjwkg it had to have been bc we talked about haircuts last time and dayna posted those secon pics. but also like why, I. am. so. mad. I fucking spent two hours fixing my code for 4520 bc he worded the question badly and then he answered my question on piazza and said that for the purpose of this assignment either method is fine. which meant I could’ve not spent two hours fixing that shit. omfg I hate this class. it made me spend ~20 hours in the past week on it. and ruined my schedule for working on two of my other classes. also can he pls release grades for the last assignment already, finished the 4660 pset and checked it over :), might just not finish 4110 and watch killing eve instead oof. 4520 really burnt me out

day 26: there was a man with a leaf blower outside working this morning starting 8am and it was so rude like some people are sleeping sir but I guess it was a blessing in disguise since it woke me up and maybe I’ll fix my sleep schedule a bit more. still trying to have 8am wakeups, meeting with refactored today. I hope our pivot is good, read two more authors for my essay and finished 4.5 pages!! I only have four more authors to do. I’ve literally done 12/16 and I’m so close to finishing and I can’t wait until I don't have to think about this class again. hopefully I can finish tomorrow, I’m officially officially cleared :), I’m gonna walk/run 5k and it saddens me how I’ve had this cramp in my calf for the past week. like I’d been fucking training for 21 days and now I could actually do a 5k but I physically can’t. like I know it’s not real bc you just do it on your own and there aren’t any timings or anything but. idk it just would’ve felt good to complete it, went on a two hours walk with Cat

day 27: woke up late, went on a run even though my cramp isn’t fully healed and it was probably a bad idea, finished 14/16!, watched killing eve instead of starting my essay though, worked on 4110 hw, ate too much after my run ugh, got a stomachache so I couldn’t do my workout :(

day 28: woke up really late. I had a dream though that I was driving and the brakes weren’t working well so I kind of kept getting into accidents and wrecking the car. and then I was like no I need to stop driving. and then was at this place where a bunch of dulaney people were for some reason. and asked hayden for a ride home? ok. also had another dream where I was eating shrimp at a restaurant but I needed to pee but the bathrooms were far away so I got in this car with the couple sitting next to me and we drove there. but the bathroom stalls were weird as fuck so three toilets were basically in each partition? so me and these other girls were gonna take turns peeing but the door was also really weird so we had to prop it up so no one could see her but then she accidentally peed on the girl who was holding the door right in front of her. idk it was too wild and I woke up, I ate at 12 and then again at 1:30 and then again at 4:30 and then again at 8. big yikes I must stop, oh I had a project team meeting. keith was the last to leave but we didn’t really talk bc he had to get back to work, finished 16/16 and the conclusion!, will work on 4110 tomorrow bc I can’t do work anymore

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veep rewatch - 2.05

Season Two, Episode Five - Helsinki

aka - The One Where Selina Smokes 

“Look at you in your jammies!”

Mike: It’s like a math prison. They rape you with numbers. Mike’s colleague: What’s your voter registration ETA?” Mike: Imminent..al.

“If Mike were here he would have spent the entire flight scratching Lotto tickets and going Oh, so close…” A glimpse of Reid Scott’s truly psychopathic imitation skills.

“This isn’t a choice like my diet, it’s a necessity like my drinking.” 

“Don’t make any jokes, okay, Dan, because with your face and your attempt to be charming, it really does come off as…as evil.” Maybe this is why Dan never runs for office. 

“Hel-synchronized.” 

Kent: Your idea of crisis management is to scream We’re fucked, bury me! Ben: We’re fucked! Bury me!

I should probably out myself as a Minna-stan. I love Minna. I’m also a giant international politics nerd, so I love whenever she makes an appearance and I love whenever Veep ventures out of the domestic and onto the global stage. Sally Phillips is divinely hilarious and I could watch her and JLD play off each other for days. And I love how they satirize Finland and its in-between place between Scandinavia and Russia (speaking as someone with dual citizenship with the US and a Scandinavian country.) This is a Minna fan-blog now. Nothing but love for Minna here. 

Selina: We hope that when you come to our country, you will go fishing.  Minna: …because no one will feed me? 

Why is everyone pronouncing Sauron incorrectly? Soor-on? Are they Canadian? 

“Christ, I hate knowledge.” 

“How lovely. That hasn’t happened in Washington since 1835.” Selina, in response to Osmo kissing her hand.

Selina: So that song, unlike your career as Communications Director, will not die. So now you must go apologize for the apology. Dan: Yes, ma’am. Selina: Why are you still standing right here?

“We should keep this causing offense and then apology cycle going….You could step on my dress, I could sneeze in your drink…it’s funny.” Sally Phillips is a treasure. 

Danteeksi.

Kent to Sue: “Please accept the necessity of this as brute fact.”

Dan whining to Amy about his ill-fated career as Communications Director. It’s almost not quite believable how terrible he is at it, but fundamentally, I think it highlights his professional “boredom” that Amy mentioned in the previous episode…Dan’s slowly checking out of Selina’s office. He doesn’t really try to get back on the offensive with the multiple apologies thing, which seems singularly out of character. He doesn’t try to permanently become Selina’s new Mike. He’s a lot more concerned about how he looks this episode than how Selina looks, an indication that he no longer sees her image as VP and his professional reputation as intertwined, the way he used to. He’s getting ready to jump ship. 

I’m sure it’s been said on Tumblr before, but Selina’s horrified reaction to Osmo groping her totally belies her completely blasé attitude to sexual harassment and assault in S7. I understand what they were trying to do with the concept of Selina-the-ultimate-misogynist more broadly, but...I think this approach so much more compelling. JLD absolutely slays with her performance. It’s not that she’s unaware or dismissive of sexual assault in politics…it’s that she thought she was safe from that kind of violence now as VP of the United States. She thought that bullshit was behind her. 

Gary’s reaction to the grope is hilariously touching. “Okay…I’m going to go mess him up!”

Dan: Jesus, Gary, you look leukemic. Gary: I always do, that’s my look. 

Dan: POTUS groped you?! Selina: No, POTUS wouldn’t have the balls to grope me.  FWIW, Dan also grasps immediately the awful significance of Selina getting groped by the husband of the Finnish Prime Minister. Both things—POTUS lying about the spy and Selina getting groped—provoke equally dismayed reactions.

The scene of everyone talking over each other in the kitchen is really well done. I wonder how long they rehearsed it.

Gary: We need to rain down the full might of our nuclear arsenal on Finland. Selina: Oh yeah, that’s the other thing I forgot to tell you, Amy…we’re going to blow up Finland.

Doyle: I’m telling you, this is not just a crisis, this is…like ten years worth of Oliver Stone movies.  Furlong: Yeah, and not the good ones, not Platoon. 

Love that little beat of JLD taking a second glance at the giant blue painting of a female torso.

Amy: It’s not like we can go public about the grope, I mean, it would define you. Your tit being fondled by a Finn…it’d be all you’re remembered for! You can’t build a statue on that. Selina: Yeah, nobody can know about this. Especially Kent, and why is that? Because he’s going to use it against me. Grope matrix. *pause* Because he’s a man. Because, this is a man’s world that we live in. Because of the axis of dick.

This is an iconic speech. I quote it all the time.

It’s so significant that of the four people in the room, Amy and Selina immediately understand why they can never tell anyone what happened to her. As a woman, their conversation just resonates. In rewatching, I was thinking about of all the indignities women can never share with their male colleagues, for precisely the reasons Amy alludes…this episode really gets at the nuances of the issue, in a way that Selina gloating over how she used to be groped all the time does not. 

Anna Chlumsky’s formal styling is just A+ here…the dress, the hair, the makeup…everything. I wish they put her hair up more, but obviously her signature straight hair is a central part of Amy’s iconography. 

“It is a container…a testicle container?”

Amy leaning right into Dan to tell him about Kent’s polling data going viral. Like obviously she has to keep her voice down and make sure he hears her…but her cheek is practically touching his shoulder. I am just pointing out the visual facts, y’all.

Dan being all cute with his international fan club. 

Look how sweet Selina is with Gary in the credits scene! Of course, when she puts a hand on Gary’s shoulder, it immediately prompts Amy to ask if she’s okay.