Naturally, This Election Drama Was Already an Episode of ‘Veep’
“This is like an episode of Veep,” is a sentence that’s been invoked too many times to count over the last four years, as the real-world political landscape resembled the circus-tent antics of the Emmy-winning HBO comedy.
Now, however, this really is like an episode of Veep.
As several people have pointed out on Twitter, recent developments on Day Two of election-result uncertainty bear uncanny resemblance to certain plot points in the show’s 2016 fifth-season arc, particularly in the episodes “Nev-AD-a” and “Mother.”