Someone on this show needs to get those goddamn Emmys

If they brought Nina and Anton together, I don't see why not. It's only a matter of time before we see Martha again (I hope), and her return is bound to be amazing.

That final scene seemed like a normal, beautifully-shot Americans scene designed to simultaneously convey the mundaneness and intensity of the Jenningses' lives (something this show does amazingly well), and then they went and JUST FUCKING KILLED HANS. I'm very happy to have this show back (even if it feels a little…

He called Trump a sociopath and said that a Trump presidency could be the "end of civilization."

Instead of celebrating that The Americans was finally nominated (and Rhys and Russell!!!), I've decided to be outraged that Alison Wright wasn't.

A Facetime competitor that works consistently and has HD video quality? That would be a pretty big deal.

That's more my thinking. I take issue with the "new showrunner therefore bad" argument, since I don't think that happened, but I can agree that the show felt a little different. For me, as funny as season 5 was, it was too scattered and didn't have nearly enough of Amy and Dan. Obviously Mandel contributed to those…

Yeah, I completely agree. A lot of the humor comes from what Jian-Yang is saying, and I think it would be just as funny without the accent, but it is a little overdone.

I specifically said that I wasn't sure if you were blaming the showrunner change. I could have replied to any number of comments on this article - it's just that yours was the first one I saw.

As a Clevelander, I take issue with the term "Midwest" in general, because I don't feel like it accurately depicts the region. As someone already said, the "Midwest" is composed of the Great Lakes and Great Plains states, which are pretty different culturally. The Great Lakes region tends to be moderately left-leaning…

I'm a huge politics nerd, but for some reason I don't really care about the inaccuracies in the constitutional process. So much about the election (like so many storylines on most sitcoms) is inconsistent with our world, like the near-complete disregard for partisanship in the House and Senate votes or Delaware voting…

I don't really understand the criticisms of the showrunner change. Maybe this season wasn't quite as good as 3 or 4, but for a fifth season of a sitcom it was pretty damn good. I feel like people wouldn't be criticizing the season as much if they didn't know that Iannucci wasn't involved anymore.

It's not really believable given our political climate, but the whole election storyline (where congress's votes aren't easily predicted) suggests that party loyalty and partisanship aren't as important in Veep's universe.

Maybe a SWOT chart?

But how do you put together a reel of his that can be shown on broadcast TV?

Jian-Yang has been this season's quiet MVP. Even as Erlich has become a shockingly half-decent human being, fucking with him will never get old.

"They called me Selina Vanderbilt… as if the Vanderbilts had any money left."
Please never change.

Plus, the electoral map gives Selina the northeast, upper midwest, and west coast, while O'Brien has the south and inland west (save for a few oddities needed to produce a tie). And I think Selina mentioned something about Charlie Baird donating more to O'Brien's campaign than hers.

I wouldn't be surprised of five years of Jonah's character "development" were building up solely to that moment.

Parties have to hold a primary regardless of whether there's an incumbent - it's just that there are rarely primary challenges against a sitting president, and those that do happen go absolutely nowhere.