Veep season 4

The fourth season follows Selina Meyer stepping into the role of president after President Hughes steps down to take care of his depressed wife. Selina's staffers' incompetence ruins her first State of the Union address by failing to load her completed speech on the teleprompter. She is determined to author a bill that will benefit working moms called Families First, although her team advises against it. After Selina's team successfully convinces her that the Families First bill is too big a political liability, they scramble to get the votes needed to make sure it will fail. A flu-ridden Selina directs their activities while sick in bed. Gary publicly meets with Dan and Amy and agrees to pay them to lobby against the bill. The episode "Testimony" depicts the staffers undergoing congressional hearings regarding the campaign's data breach, during which they each scapegoat Bill Ericsson. Selina takes steps to end Catherine's engagement to Jason, a 35-year-old political consultant. The season finale ("Election Night") follows Selina and her team on election night. Jonah and Richard manage the Meyer-James rally, and Jonah turns his debacle with Teddy into a testicular health awareness campaign. Her running mate, Tom James, requests that she make him Treasury Secretary in addition to vice president if they win. After poor results prompt Selina to nearly concede, she and O'Brien tie for electoral college votes (269 each), which triggers the 20th Amendment and an impending vote by the House of Representatives. The episode discusses the possibility that in the case of another tie, the Senate's selection for vice president would become president, likely to be James. == Cast and characters ==

Main • Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer • Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer • Tony Hale as Gary Walsh • Reid Scott as Dan Egan • Timothy Simons as Jonah Ryan • Matt Walsh as Mike McLintock • Sufe Bradshaw as Sue Wilson • Kevin Dunn as Ben Cafferty • Gary Cole as Kent Davison • Sam Richardson as Richard Splett Recurring • Sarah Sutherland as Catherine Meyer • David Pasquesi as Andrew Meyer • Kathy Najimy as Wendy Keegan • Dan Bakkedahl as Congressman Roger Furlong • Nelson Franklin as Will • David Rasche as Speaker Jim Marwood • Paul Fitzgerald as Congressman Owen Pierce • Phil Reeves as Senator Andrew Doyle • Patton Oswalt as Teddy Sykes • Brad Leland as Senator Bill O'Brien • Hugh Laurie as Senator Tom James • Diedrich Bader as Bill Ericsson • Peter Grosz as Sidney Purcell • Brian Huskey as Leon West • Jessie Ennis as Leigh Patterson • Lennon Parham as Karen Collins • Randall Park as Minnesota Governor Danny Chung • Isiah Whitlock Jr. as General George Maddox Guest • Navid Negahban as Abbas == Episodes ==

The series creator Armando Iannucci departed as showrunner at the end of the season, "citing the toll producing a series in the U.S. has taken on Iannucci and his London-based family." Iannucci is credited as story co-writer for every episode. Directors for the season included Addison, Martin, Laing, and Iannucci. Release The first episode of the season aired on April 12, 2015, on HBO and new episodes aired every Sunday until its finale on June 14, 2015. == Reception ==

Season four of Veep received critical acclaim. It received a 90/100 on review aggregator Metacritic, Departing creator and showrunner Armando Iannucci was praised for the season by Newsweek, who called it the "funniest season yet." The acting and writing were received well, as in ''The Hollywood Reporter's review by Tim Goodman: "Veep'' enters its fourth season firmly established as one of television's best comedies, and then immediately does what seems impossible: It delivers its most thoroughly assured, hilarious and brilliantly written and acted episodes." Matt Zoller Seitz wrote in Vulture of the titular character's acting: "Louis-Dreyfus is her usual Swiss-watch self, so confident that she seems to glide through her scenes." The comedic duo of Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale was also applauded; Ben Travers described them in IndieWire: "The duo’s chemistry continues to drive entire episodes with a few short moments, and if they’re kept apart too long, the rest of the team is there to fill gaps faster than you can spot them." David Hinckley of the New York Daily News also noted, "if you don't find awkward funny, you won't get "Veep."" Veep was called the most accurate depiction of American politics by Dan Pfeiffer for Grantland, who stated that the show captures "the humanity, the banality, and the absurdity" of Washington D.C. He further stated: "The fact that real-life Washington loves the show but often doesn’t seem to truly get the joke may be the show’s most devastating critique of all." == Awards and nominations ==