VEEP - The Complete Fourth Season

"This land is her land," says the cover of "VEEP: The Complete Fourth Season," and Selina Meyer (fabulously frustrated Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is indeed president. At least for a few months.

Armando Iannucci's scathingly hilarious series continues as the shorter-haired, more glasses-wearing VEEP becomes POTUS, noting "I'm the president; everything's my fault now." Running the country as well as her upcoming election campaign, she exhaustedly notes that, "Reagan hired Hinckley just to get two weeks in bed." Her speeches, written by communications director Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh), "Yosemite Sam without the credibility," are "noise-shaped air" and, for American deaths, he uses a "thoughts and prayers template."

Teddy (Patton Oswalt) is the new VP's chief of staff with a penchant for fondling toady Jonah's balls (Timothy Simons). Jonah inherits Meyer's inept, filter-less book tour aide Richard (Sam Richardson), a Russian nesting doll of hapless assistants (who, when tasked to buy decorations for a campaign event, "spend like Elton John on a day he feels fat").

Hugh Laurie joins the cast as Tom James, Meyer's charismatic, attention-stealing, last-minute running mate choice, whom she terms "Steve Martin's boring older brother." Diedrich Bader is snarky, self-serving advisor Bill. Meyer's flip-flopping "yes woman" Karen (Lennon Parham) joins the claque to annoy across the board.

Still primarily surrounded by white men, "an infestation of mediocrity," Meyer notes that she's "used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men; i.e. men," who call the numerous female interns "expenda-belles."

Episode Four takes the team to Tehran to negotiate the release of an ungrateful American journalist, who, upon entering Air Force One, asks to "eat anything that's not chick peas."

The "Convention" episode pits Meyer's team against a "sexy Mexy" in a "Latina-geddon." "Storms and Pancakes" follows the campaign bus, emblazoned with their oxymoronic motto "Continuity with Change." White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty (Kevin Dunn) tells presidential scheduler Sue (Sufe Bradshaw), who is "bored with politics," it's "great struggling to talk to you."

Dan "the Egan has landed" (Reid Scott) and Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky), with her unique combination of "lack of self-worth and narcissism," become lobbyists, or rather, consultants, for soulless PKM, and, to their new clients, liken kids to "little human start-ups" while one is told that "your inner child needs to grow an outer man."

Meantime, everybody is throwing everyone under the bus during a congressional hearing about data breaches, focused around a new smart phone memo app reflecting Hillary Clinton's email fiasco.

Pop culture references continue to fuel the rapid-fire disses, as well as the deleted scenes in the Blu-ray extras -- Meyer living like "a real life Mariah Carey," the "gray Elvis" and "Keyser S�ze" that is flat Kent (Gary Cole) -- "I wish I understood vendettas; they're so time consuming" -- and one references a Vulcan: "Live long and fuck off."

"VEEP: The Complete Fourth Season"
Blu-ray set
$26.29
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