This is seriously some of the finest acting I've ever seen. I know she received tremendous critical praise for her role, but I hope people truly realize the magnitude of her performance as Selina Meyer. This scene in particular is just masterful, staggering acting.
@@Rash23215 Toadies often believe they're special because the asshole that backstabs everyone never backstabs them, so the fact they normally DO backstab everyone else just proves how special their relationship is... Which is why they are so surprised when the backstab eventually comes for them too.
@@macdaraoraghallaigh7343 When she gives that whole sex lecture to Tom's chief of staff at the beginning. She pitches her speaking voice down slightly and speaks in a rasp. It's noticeable at the 0:45 mark.
These are probably my most favorite scenes in this whole show. It really drove us to see how much Selina wants the presidency and Tom’s “what ARE you???” And her unmoved expression is fucking amazing.
I loved the finale so much. They really saved her most Selina moments for last. I mean after all the shenanigans they went through in seven seasons it is just so impressive that the writers knew how to still one up her narcissism and manipulation tactics and show us this pure 24 karat of demon gold version of her.
@@isaachurtado5030 I mean, she was feckless and incompetent and narcissistic in the early seasons, but I didn't think she was EVIL. In Season 7, though, she really turned it up to 11. lol
It isn’t the betrayal that bothers him, he knows that’s how the game is played. It’s the fact that she has forever destroyed his life for something he didn’t do. It’s made very clear that it was a consensual affair between him and his chief of staff. Selina convinced her to tell the nation that it was sexual harassment.
Except that she didn't ''betray'' him, she set him up and turned affair (which is bad thing morally but not a crime legally) into sex scandal/abuse/harassment story. She didn't care about his employee nor did she care about the truth. He was a jerk and pos and cheater and sexist and all that - but was he sexual predator as she purpoted?
There’s an excellent video about Kim Wexler from a channel called ‘Just an Observation’ and one of the observations is how often Rhea Seehorn has minimal lines in a scene but her reactions are so compelling you stare at her anyway. Like the first time we see Kim in BCS is in a board room where she has no lines, but we read her face as she watches Jimmy and Howard. This VEEP scene is already a great example of that.
Too true! I just finished binging the series today. No doubt Selina's a monster but Tom definitely had this coming. Watching her salt the wound with a smile is stone cold but satisfying. Hugh Laurie really sold the indignation though, you can almost forget how 2 faced his character is and feel for him.
I actually really enjoyed this twist and darker side to her (which had always been there but was finally unleashed by her greed for power). Firstly this scene really showed the amazing quality of the script and acting. But also Tom James was a POS and Selina was never taken seriously by him and was continuously used or played by him so he could get ahead. He had no respect for her achievements or status as president. I loved seeing him get completely shafted by her. He deserved it. He even tries to use his ‘pregnant wife...’ to play a sympathy card and limit his reputational damage. Boo fucking hoo. If he’d had any respect for her he’d never have done it. Selina’s cackle as he’s leaving is complete gold.
@southerncajuncharm Both of these comments are sort of the entire point of the show right? she's desperate for the presidency to the point of selling out anything and anyone. and in the end she gets it, but it all proves utterly futile, because there was nothing deeper than the surface pursuit of power. And obviously tom james is the same, he just wasnt prepared for how much more desperate she was for the title than he was. Also, it was comedy gold, but is a former presidents death getting usurped by a celebrity that meaningful? Hell, most people dont know that mother teresa died on the same day as princess diana. celebrity is a fickle thing
@southerncajuncharm Actually Tom Hanks died after the funnel is over. We all know how it works, We do not bury dead President immediately, their coffin will place in Capitol Hill for some days, and then the ceremony in capital hill, then go to the final resting place. When the funeral is over, the news circle normally end. Unless she died exactly same day as Tom Hanks, then it may be a problem. And it may be a good thing for her also, If she is a failed President without anything to show off, end the news circle earlier will make sure people feel sorry her but not think of bad things she did.
You mean the free psychic reading for your pet? Yeah that spun me out as well... my box set of Veep doesn't have that bit in this episode though, which is weird.
He might have been a pos and a jerk, but did he deserve to be outed for something he's likely not? Cheating around is wrong but it's not criminal offense, nor it automatically means he coersed or manipulated his employee into this.
What blows my mind: the whole Montana delegation heard her, and they didn’t care! It’s just business to them. As long as they get their drilling, nothing else matters. And damn if that isn’t 100% what DC is like
Julia is where raw acting talent emerges from. She doesn't just exemplify great acting, she's talent personified. The sheer versatility she displayed in the opening season is mind-boggling.
Those last eps I think showed her desperation to now lose again. Like she was def evil and not giving a shit what it took in these last eps especially after Ben had his heart attack
“The gash of least resistance” is one of the most intense things I’ve ever heard come out of a woman’s mouth lol My friends and I tell every manner of offensive, hideous, “cancellable” joke…but I’ve never heard one of them plumb those depths quite as effectively…
How is her convincing his press secretary of holding him accountable for his actions evil? If she'd orchestrated for him to have an affair or lied about it then she would be evil but Tom James kind of brought this onto himself.
I'm glad someone else saw the truth of it all. Men in power think they hold the cards; all Selena did was keep it real with his secretary 🤷🏾♀️ . The secretary did the rest.
What's crazy here is... Tom is acting like a victim of Selina's game of chess. But we also realize that he's being accused of workplace sexual harassment-- a horrible thing in itself. It's brilliant that the ethical dilemmas in this season get this dark.
Can you upload the scene between Selina, Amy and Kent when Amy and Kent are begging Selina to not ask Jonah to be her Veep? Julia was brilliant in that scene.
During Election Night and the Congressional Vote for president, she gets within a hair’s length of being elected president in her own right, but forces in and out of her control deny her with what she wants. The convention episodes marked a turning point for her and its fucking AWESOME. There was no humiliating catastrophe waiting for her at the finish line this time but she made sure there was at least one for Tom James. Fucking COLD.
I mean she humiliated herself even worse than anyone else. In her last ditch effort to get the presidency she sold out literally everyone who ever was on her team. This episode is the turning point when massive narcissim finally turned into full on psychopathy. "What are you?" is an appropriate question to direct at the absolute demon she has become.
I just remember sitting in my dorm room in awe of this entire episode. EVERYTHING was tied up incredibly well, and we saw just how far Selina would go at every angle. Magnificent
Just think, if Selina had just accepted Tom brushing her off about the night of the green shoes in S4E5 and let it die, none of this would've ever happened.
Is the animal the clairvoyant? Like is a cat going to determine my fortune? Or am I seeing a human clairvoyant to determine an animal's fortune? Do I get to pick the animal?
The entire series is Selina trying to somewhat maintain an ethical playbook, and being steamrolled for it, then, when she's finally tired of losing, she goes full scorched earth and scares the crap out of everyone.
He was running for the presidential nomination ticket against Selina and she butchered his chances after he’d tried to sabotage her campaign numerous times. They’d also had an on-off affair over many years which he’d spilled in a book deal (and he’d always played on her attraction to him to gain some sort of political advantage). It was basically him being held accountable for the first time in his life by someone he thought he could manipulate, so as a privileged career politician, he lost it that his shitty behaviour finally came home to roost when he was in touching distance of the nomination.
This show is seriously funny because of how realistic it is. In a seriousness, you gotta admit how fucked up this world when a woman can simply lie and say she was taken advantage of and ruin a man’s career just like that.
This one didn't lie though. He was her boss and took advantage. And stats show that over 90% of the time people who make these claims are telling the truth.
