The second season begins with a new series of strong events as former Sen. Selena Meyer found that being a vice president of the United States was not what she had hoped for. It seems that anything that everyone has warned of it will be realistic and now it has to struggle to stay connected to politics in any way.
With a greater focus on setting a course for the season, "Midterms" wasn't the funniest episode, but it did exemplify the show's talent to mix awkward exchanges, humorous dialogue and broad physical comedy in a single scene.
HBO's Veep is the sharpest Beltway satire the medium has ever seen, mostly because it focuses not on the power wielded by politicians, but on their desperate venality