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Immediate Reaction
“Maybe it will ruin her parade.” With those words, we saw the first glimpse of happiness cross Selina Meyer’s face all episode. In someone else’s pain and disappointment, she found pleasure. She came close to a similar reaction when Tom James shockingly lost the presidency, but her own misfortune was tied to his, thus ruining any pure happiness the exiting President could cling to in her poorest hour.
The reason I bring this up is primarily to highlight what “Inauguration” focused on throughout: Selina Meyer through the impossibly clear lens of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Granted, it’s not a stretch to define the series similarly, but the Season 5 finale took another in what have become a series of brave steps by refusing to put Selina back in the VP office. And to justify that choice,...
Immediate Reaction
“Maybe it will ruin her parade.” With those words, we saw the first glimpse of happiness cross Selina Meyer’s face all episode. In someone else’s pain and disappointment, she found pleasure. She came close to a similar reaction when Tom James shockingly lost the presidency, but her own misfortune was tied to his, thus ruining any pure happiness the exiting President could cling to in her poorest hour.
The reason I bring this up is primarily to highlight what “Inauguration” focused on throughout: Selina Meyer through the impossibly clear lens of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Granted, it’s not a stretch to define the series similarly, but the Season 5 finale took another in what have become a series of brave steps by refusing to put Selina back in the VP office. And to justify that choice,...
- 6/27/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Richard may have the technical know-how and skill to get the fictional company Pied Piper off the ground on the HBO series Silicon Valley, but when it comes to any sort of social grace, it's lacking in a big way. That formula appears to continue as if things never changed as Mike Judge's show gets ready for its Season Three launch, alongside Game Of Thrones and Veep in late-April. HBO has given us... Read More...
- 2/11/2016
- by Billy Donnelly
- JoBlo.com
Richard Simmons has not been seen in public for almost 2 years, and that's exactly the way he wants it because he just doesn't want to be famous anymore. It's coming up on 2 years since Richard vanished from public view ... abandoning longtime friends, and even turning his back on his famous exercise studio where he was a fixture. Friends and family were so alarmed they called the police, who did a welfare check in January, but...
- 12/17/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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