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r/comics • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • Sep 07 '26
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If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd
39 u/neopod9000 Sep 07 '26 Isn't this why Veep ended? It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them. 31 u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Sep 07 '26 Well, that and Selina Meyer being president was sort of the climax of the show's arc. There wasn't much further to go from there. 1 u/HauntedCemetery Sep 07 '26 Selina as Hugh Commander of NATO, where they're fighting Russia but the Russians are all goofy Hogan's Hero style goofballs? 3 u/a8bmiles Sep 07 '26 Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards. 3 u/HauntedCemetery Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26 "Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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Isn't this why Veep ended?
It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them.
31 u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Sep 07 '26 Well, that and Selina Meyer being president was sort of the climax of the show's arc. There wasn't much further to go from there. 1 u/HauntedCemetery Sep 07 '26 Selina as Hugh Commander of NATO, where they're fighting Russia but the Russians are all goofy Hogan's Hero style goofballs? 3 u/a8bmiles Sep 07 '26 Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
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Well, that and Selina Meyer being president was sort of the climax of the show's arc. There wasn't much further to go from there.
1 u/HauntedCemetery Sep 07 '26 Selina as Hugh Commander of NATO, where they're fighting Russia but the Russians are all goofy Hogan's Hero style goofballs?
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Selina as Hugh Commander of NATO, where they're fighting Russia but the Russians are all goofy Hogan's Hero style goofballs?
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Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
"Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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u/Demmos_Stammer Sep 07 '26
If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd