Combined with what they did to Amy and Catherine the female characters in particular seemed to suffer.Ĭatherine in particular reminds me of The Office with Kevin, where the joke was Michael had a false perception of him that was contrary to him being athletic and intelligent, and that slowly morphed into Kevin being Michael's perception of him, that he is food obsessed and an idiot. Most of the characters lose their complexity in the Mandel seasons but Selina possibly suffers the worst of them all. And Selina is supposed to represent the worst of it.ġ00% agree. To cast a light on the uglier side of politics and politicians. And that's, I think, the whole point of Veep. But that sense becomes uglier and uglier as Selina gets closer and closer to her ultimate ambitions. She seems relatable to anyone who has had to fight to get ahead and be viewed as competent by her professional peers, and for a while you might excuse her antics as thinking well she's even more ruthless and bold than I'd be in that situation. I think credit is owed to the writers and JDL that if you really think about it, even in the beginning Selina is nothing more than a power hungry ambition monster with no real interest in serving the public (even Clean Jobs and Families First are resume/legacy projects), but despite this Selina tricks you into thinking she's someone you should be rooting for to succeed. It doesn't redeem her but I think the point of Selina is supposed to watch basically a villain's journey as the inverse of the here's journey and understand how this character fell so far in seeking power. And by one of the last shots she's sitting in the oval office alone, likely pondering how she had to burn every relationship she had to get back there. Even at her worst, in the finale, she looks back at Gary feeling the slightest bit badly that she stabbed in the back the one person who always supported her unconditionally. But as Selina's character develops towards this you still see shades of her humanity trying to stick around trying to keep Selina honest or at least self aware. The last season and particularly the last episode really drive home how dramatically Selina has lost her humanity and by the finale they bash you over the head with how power can make a person genuinely evil and sociopathic. But by the end she'll set anyone and anything she remotely cares about on fire if it inches her closer to her goals. And the more she veers towards power hungry, the less she gives a shit about anyone but herself and she's someone who started the series as a profound egotist. She flukes into a presidency after having an enflated ego over being Veep and it slowly corrupts her into becoming more and more desperate to win power. In the beginning she's at least trying to act as though she is a leader with integrity and distinction if only for the respect of her peers and the public as she tries to climb higher. In the beginning you get the underpinnings of someone who has no moral compass or integrity, like when she says she'll have to act with her conscience and then asks her staff how that should proceed and what it should look like. I think that's supposed to be the audience's conclusion as the progression of her character.
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