It’s often said that FDR’s first vice president remarked that his office wasn’t worth “a bucket of warm spit,” and this series shares that jaundiced view. A well-cast Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a vice president adrift in an administration rife with cynical schemers and petty intrigues. Created by the director of the Oscar-nominated 2009 film In the Loop, Veep is similarly powered by pungent dialogue and a dismal—but very funny—view of government. Tony Hale (Arrested Development) and Anna Chlumsky (In the Loop) add color as the veep’s chief aides. Sunday, April 22, at 10 p.m., HBO
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