One of the things I enjoy about the HBO show Veep is the fact that it has such a strong presence online. I know there is a “Stop Selina Meyer” twitter account…I don’t know if it’s HBO who runs it, but it’s a great way of promoting the show. They even made a campaign website for Selina Meyer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who plays Selina) made short campaign videos for it. There are also a lot of discussions people have about different episodes, and each time I stumble across one of them I learn more about the show and how it’s crafted.
The other day, I found this discussion people were having about an episode in season four where Selina gives her first State of the Union address (SPOILER ALERT). Naturally, the speech is a complete disaster: the teleprompter stops working because they’re editing the speech while Selina is supposed to be reading it only for them to put in the wrong edits and Selina announces the wrong spending plan (she promises to invest $60 billion on obsolete technologies when she intended to announce she was cutting $50 billion in the budget). 
Anyway, she ends up telling her staff after the speech “This speech was supposed to perfectly define my presidency.” Someone pointed out in a discussion group that the speech did in fact perfectly define Selina’s presidency because her whole administration is a complete disaster. So, the speech in the first episode foreshadows the entire season. Which I just thought was a great point.
So, naturally, I’m thoroughly excited for season five to start….count down to April 24th
