Veep's final season premiere featured "satire of the darkest order"

The Atlantic

The Season 8 premiere "serves as a ratcheted-up version of something that has been a common theme in Veep," says Megan Garber. "The show has long used its characters’ callous reactions to deaths as a way to telegraph their moral vacuity. It’s not only that these people are craven, the show has suggested, as they gleefully treat the deaths of fellow politicians as opportunities instead of tragedies; it’s that they are constitutionally unable to understand death in the way most other people do." ALSO: Sam Richardson has a theory about how TV shows are inspired by the president in office.