Veep: Camp David

June 14, 2016 6:52 AM - Season 5, Episode 8

Secret negotiations with the Chinese turn the Christmas break into a classic farce, complete with translators, regifting, and another annoying blonde woman.

In the meantime, Jonah stumbles into the House of Representatives thanks more to other people fucking up even worse than he does.

posted by Etrigan (6 comments total)

So good! I cringed so much during this episode. The re-gift circle and Catherine's girlfriend wearing the kimono were awesome. Also mistaking the Chinese president for the cook.
posted by Zephyrial at 10:04 AM on June 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

This was one of those episodes of comedy where you could clearly see what was coming and it was so well put-together that I wanted to keep watching anyway.
posted by lauranesson at 2:55 PM on June 14, 2016

I'm so happy we got a Minna episode!
posted by Dr. Zira at 7:16 PM on June 14, 2016

The re-gift circle and Catherine's girlfriend wearing the kimono were awesome.

It was a reverse Gift of the Magi.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 9:57 PM on June 14, 2016

you could clearly see what was coming and it was so well put-together that I wanted to keep watching anyway

I mean, I guess I should have expected that the Chinese premier was going to reveal he spoke English all along, but the nice thing is that there's so much else going on at once that it's not lampshaded (and really only embarrassing in hindsight) that he understood all the ridiculous things Selina was trying to tell the translator.
posted by psoas at 9:51 AM on June 15, 2016

Always great to see Sally Phillips. This was a good episode.
posted by turbid dahlia at 11:17 PM on June 16, 2016