Armando Iannucci’s Veep (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET)—ruefully amused and regularly amusing—stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the vice president of the United States. The farce busies itself with filibuster-reform failures and a clean-jobs-commission hassle. But where Iannucci’s earlier comedic explorations of government (BBC’s The Thick of It and its big-screen spinoff, In the Loop) directly concerned themselves with the substance of politics, Veep focuses on style, on mangled image-management and interpersonal bumbling. This is appropriate both to the nature of the No. 2 job—famously, a gig not worth a pitcher of warm piss—and to the facts of public service in 21st century America.
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