What I’m Watching: Veep

Veep: Season 3, Episode 6 “Detroit” (B+)

It really is incredible to think about the combination of personalities surrounding Selina and how they all contribute to help make her the candidate that she is. Having Catherine and Andrew, and Christopher Meloni’s Ray, around just enhanced the fun. Catherine punching Selina’s liberty-defending assailant one-upped Selina walking through a glass door in terms of sheer visual shock effect, and, unsurprisingly, Selina wasn’t too happy about the attention being diverted from her. Jonah scored an unusual success while wearing his all-too-standard lanyard by celebrating the devastating stunt of Maddox putting his hand on Selina’s back after their handshake to appear as if she needed his help. Ray made things all kinds of awkward, and Gary watching Amy enjoy the message she requested to distract from Selina’s loud sex with Andrew was perhaps the most worthwhile and uncomfortable part. I love that Ben is being incorporated more into the regular story, and that Dan got to put his foot in his mouth in a big way by insulting the speech Ben had written which he thought was penned by Mike. Watching Dan flail about as a campaign manager with two iPads really is entertaining. I enjoyed Kent and Sue being extremely efficient while holding down the fort in Washington, and seeing their bizarre but apparently solid relationship develop. Amy trying to defend her genuine friendship with Selina was also amusing, especially since she’s usually the voice of reason who doesn’t try to pretend to be more attached to her boss than she really is.