It’s still laugh-out-loud funny, the best comedy on TV. One episode will have her monitoring a free election in a former Soviet republic. The irony just drips. And all you can say about Louis-Dreyfus is that six isn’t too many.

One of the most difficult things a sitcom can do is to monkey with its basic premise, scattering characters here and there, while retaining its quality (and its audience). This usually happens with shows whose casts are aging--when a series set during high school must graduate its class to college, for example--and the results are frequently dire, or at the least, second-rate. Not so with Veep.

Every member of the ensemble cast is still performing at his or her peak, adding just the right amount of salt on dialogue that’s already high in sodium. ... Veep: it’s no longer just a brilliant satire. It’s almost--almost--something to which we can aspire.

In TV terms, we call this a re-set, but in Veep terms, it’s genius. HBO offered three episodes for review, which seen together play like a movie--the funniest movie you will have seen all year, maybe next year, too.

Mandel hasn’t squandered any of his comedy capital; he keeps the barbs flying and the crushing disappointment looming closely enough to maintain the momentum in his second term.

Ben's Silicon Valley culture shock, Dan's power struggle with his mercurial co-star, and Jonah's congressional hazing provide new fodder for Veep's beyond the claustrophobic halls of power. After five seasons, the show's limited context began to constrain comedic potential; now its characters are free to wreak havoc in an exponentially larger environment.

Stripping these characters of whatever power they previously had and scattering them to the winds forces everyone into their smallest, meanest selves--which frankly becomes hard to watch, and not in Veep’s usual “cringe because it’s so real” kind of way.

Arguably not quite as sharp as Veep's very best seasons this show nevertheless remains an absolutely hysterical watch.

While some comedies tend to get stale late in their run as a series, Veep continues to be great.

Okay, I'm new to this series. Very funny show... but I HATE "shaky cam!" Come on, I thought we were all done with that in 2008. Seriously, it's distracting, stupid, and it gives me a fckin headache. I will not be watching another episode.

It's so hypocritical, on this season pilot episode, it made a joke of Character Ben saying words like Chinaman's chance Oriental and Yellow fever, why don't you make jokes by using the word **** for a change, or maybe Porch money or even Spook? I double dare you. Freaking political correctness is even double standard on a HBO show too, shame on y'all writers producers on the show.