Veep: The Complete Fourth Season (MA) 4 stars
With some TV shows, the title becomes inaccurate as time goes on. Here, US Vice-President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is President after the resignation last season of her predecessor and has her own Veep, whom she treats with about the same respect as she was given. Two of them, in fact: one quits, and as part of her campaign to win office in her own right, she appoints charismatic senator Bill James (Hugh Laurie) as her running mate, only to worry that his popularity will overshadow her.
But title aside, the show is still sharply written, fast-paced and well acted and it continues to ignore the unfolding spectacle of the real-world US election to go its own merrily foul-mouthed and funny way as the hapless, cynical but (mostly) strangely likeable characters try to make their way.
There are scandals, firings, a hostage crisis, an angry daughter, a bill that becomes a major headache.
Jonah (Timothy Simons) is repeatedly sexually harassed by Teddy (Patton Oswalt), the Vice-President's Chief of Staff; and Amy (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan (Reid Scott) try to find their way in the murky world of lobbying.
The only extras are deleted scenes from the episodes which usually provide extra amusement.