HBO’s Emmy-winning political satire series “Veep” saw a massive resurgence in popularity this week after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and Vice President Kamala Harris launched her own campaign for the office. Following Biden’s announcement, viewership of the show shot up by roughly 353 percent from the previous day, with many fans drawing ironic comparisons between Harris and the show’s bumbling female protagonist.
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“Veep,” which ran for seven seasons between 2012 and 2019, starred “Seinfeld” alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus as comically inept Vice President Selina Meyer, who struggled to balance work with her personal life while also dealing with a dysfunctional president. The show’s later seasons saw the president resign unexpectedly, allowing Meyer to launch her own campaign…a strikingly poignant reflection of recent developments in Harris’ own political career.
On Monday, “Veep” had 2.2 million viewing minutes, compared to the day before when it had just 486,000. The renewed interest in the show paralleled the surge in Netflix streams of “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2020 film adaptation of vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s 2016 memoir by the same name.
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