Veep Season 1

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Veep Season 1 is available on and right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Julia Louis-Dreyfus leads a cast with real comic timing. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

There is a reason Veep Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Veep Season 1 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Senator Selina Meyer has just become the Vice President of the United States...and discovered that the job is nothing like she expected--but everything she was warned about. Season one follows the whirlwind day-to-day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles public and private demands and defends the interests of the chief executive--with whom she shares a uniquely dysfunctional relationship. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2012. What keeps Veep Season 1 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Veep Season 1 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Julia Louis-Dreyfus anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.