Starting April 16 we’ll have the the pleasure of experiencing two dysfunctional presidential administrations simultaneously, as Veep Season 6 premieres on HBO at 10:30. Both will require a significant tolerance for gallows and cringe humor to endure, but at least with Veep you never have to look at Sean Spicer.
Attention, #Veeple! @OfficialJLD has some exciting news. #Veep Season 6 premieres 4/16 at 10:30p EST. ? pic.twitter.com/krSjI5yWxF
— Veep (@VeepHBO) February 7, 2017
So what will Selina Meyer get up to now that she’s not president or vice president? "We've seen that she doesn't deal well with defeat and I think she's going to lose her quest for relevancy,” David Mandel, who replaced creator Armando Iannucci as showrunner in Season 5, told Bustle. Could that mean an attempt at TV? Or perhaps peddling her memoirs?
“What happens to an administration that’s been shown the door?” Gary Cole, who plays Kent Davison, described as the motivating plot line for Veep Season 6. Larry King asked him the obvious question: will Veep Season 6 have a Donald Trump figure? “Veep has always picked prototypes from current affairs, but they have never identified them as such,” Cole said.
At the end of Veep Season 5 Meyer loses the presidency to Laura Montez, but since Veep stars Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), there’s a good chance she’ll find a way to worm back into power and continue to carve her selfish ambitions, petty vengeances and arrogance across the face of American democracy. This might be sounding familiar.
