Forget ‘The Office,’ HBO’s Ambitious 53-Episode Comedy Did Workplace Chaos Better

NBC‘s The Office showed us that every workplace, no matter how mundane, is zany and full of heart on the inside. That concept clearly resonated with audiences, and it has been expanded on in other TV workplace comedies over the last two decades. Looking back now, it’s clear that HBO‘s Veep took this idea to its greatest extreme, with high stakes for the United States and for the world in its most absurd storylines. Veep aired seven seasons with 65 episodes from 2012 to 2019, and nothing has lived up to it since. The series earned several prestigious awards and critical acclaim, and it’s time for it to get the same praise as The Office.