Into The Veep End

EW takes you inside the final days of filming Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ artfully nasty political comedy. (Warning: Tears and teardowns follow.)

- Dan Snierson

Los Angeles. December. High noon. End times. After seven seasons, 17 Emmys, and 1,776 too clever, too vulgar jokes for TV, Veep has reached its term limit. It’s one of the final days of filming, which means that this is one of the last chances for these cynical, defective characters to confess how much they mean to each other and realize that the only way through these tumultuous, fractured, effed-up times is to embrace empathy and band together for the common good. ¶ Or, you know, Selina could just smack Jonah.

For reasons best left unrevealed, presidential hopeful and hopeless egotist Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her wearied accomplices are holding a clandestine hotel-room meeting with B-list, D-bag congressman Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) and his team of misfit toys. She makes Jonah an offer he can’t refuse, so… he does. “Shut up, you gum-recessed faceanus! You harelipped diarrhea golem!!!” yells Jonah’s power-playing uncle Jeff (Peter MacNicol). “No! You shut up!” Jonah snaps back at Jeff. “I’m not going to let anyone talk to me like that!”