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<em>Veep</em>’s Final Season Ponders a Horrifying Thought

Might these characters have feelings after all?
Source: HBO

This article contains minor plot details for the first three episodes of Veep, Season 7.

It’s no spoiler to say that the once and possibly future President Selina Meyer (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus)finds herself in a colossally embarrassing situation early in the seventh season of . Her life is generally a parade of mortification and mishaps, interrupted by moments of power-grabbing glory that are almost always brought on by accident (who can forget those immortal words: ). But this particular low point—at an Aspen ideas festival () held by a)—is, well, particularly low. “That was the most humiliating experience of my entire life,” she spits afterward, “and I have been vice president!” To the frenemy who caused her screwup through a wild feat of manipulation, she asks this: “What are you, some sort of sociopath?”

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