I watched the Veep series finale last night. It was fine, a little surprising that Selina threw Gary under the bus in service of being elected, but it was fine. The show was fine. In truth, it was at its most interesting about 4 seasons ago, and became a dueling-banjo insult show that lost any sense of internal consistency a few seasons back, but it was funny anyway.
Regardless, the thing about series finales is how most are anti-climactic. I have watched shows obsessively only to basically forget about them 48 hours after they stop airing. TV show universes expand early and then start contracting as they near the end. It is why fans end up getting frustrated. They want characters to have arcs that differ from those they see on the screen or they start picking on how they arrive at their climactic finish. Relationships rarely end well and because a series finale puts a period on the story being told and there is no way to reach closure other than what you see, you are left to ponder what was done right and what was done wrong, or, you just forget about things and move on with your life.
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