The news is delivered by Matt Walsh as Mike McLintock, looking like Walter Cronkite, who attempts to pay homage to Selina when Hanks’s death cuts his eulogy short. It’s not lost upon her what has happened. “I thought that was important.”Before the finale aired, Julia Louis-Dreyfus reached out to Hanks and informed him that his death would be featured prominently at the end of the series. Tim did such a beautiful job there.The Hollywood Reporter is part of MRC Media & Info, a division of MRC.Well, or she didn’t. But she did.Selina Meyer is nothing if not tenacious. Just the idea that after everything had happened to her, when she finally does die and has her moment in the sun, Hughes clips her wings yet again.”After all of the scenes of the memorial service were shot, the mood turned celebratory. Which, obviously at the end of the episode, they are.Nothing is ever easy for Catherine. When he tells her that he's had a bag packed and ready to go for years, it just makes perfect sense. And I do think it speaks to their relationship — as twisted as it may be — but it continues to be the one good thing in Catherine’s life.Well, no. There was a little deal when she was the president, but then she was also doing stuff when she was not the president. It’s hard to say that this is her getting what she deserves, but Ben did warn her about trusting them.
It’s just very interesting that it was Meemaw’s boat.She’s not Kellyanne Conway!Showrunner David Mandel warned after last week's episode that Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a tendency to go through the door without thinking about the ramifications. She’s not fully guilty, but she’s guilty, and this gets her what she wanted.
Or until they’re terrible in a different way. That’s just unfortunately true. And then he had multiple stepdads; some of whom he liked, some of whom he hated. “Hanks is gone?”To make the time jump work, 18 cast members had to be aged two-plus decades for the various flash-forward scenes. That his dad died when he was very young. On one take, when Mike gets the breaking news that Hanks has died, Walsh pretended to break down mid-broadcast. And it was a wonderful tour de force by Dave Pasquesi — who I think doesn’t get enough credit for the wonderful sleaze that he brings to Andrew.
She has some power there. Did anyone really believe for a moment that Andrew died in that boat explosion? Then there was Reid Scott, who, as older Dan, now a real-estate agent with a fake tan and some slight wrinkles, largely appeared unchanged.“The second [Frank] said it, it was just like, ‘Ah!’” Mandel says. In that moment where Catherine finds out that her dad is dead, it is Marjorie who is there to comfort her. The U.S. attorney is looking into her and there’s not a lot of good ways to make it go away. I do like that they are the worst parents in the world that they were going to send Marjorie away if they could, but then they are genuinely pleased and so excited that she and Catherine are getting engaged. We always knew China was going to be a big piece of things. According to Selina, she made Andrew fire her and replaced her with Mike McLintock. But now it’s like a clear shot to losing and she doesn’t like to lose. Ben warned her. He’s got a lot to deal with and he’s not someone who deals well, that’s how this will effect him moving forward.As if the murder of her ex-husband wasn't enough, Selina uncovers the true goal of the Chinese, thanks to a letter stolen from Keith's desk: They are rigging primary elections so she will win the party's ticket, but the reason they want her to go up against sitting President Laura Montez (Andrea Savage) is because she is the weaker candidate; Selina will be an easy opponent for a Montez reelection.She’s seeing how she can move the needle, rightly or wrongly, with Jonah.
That was a lot of the talk in the writers room: what happens when it’s this awful thing, but it leads to good things? This is them coming out of it a little bit stronger. After an allergic reaction shuts down her budget negotiation with Majority Leader Mary King, Selina moves the talks to Catherine's 21st birthday bash. It's a time jump, but it follows up on a lot of these pieces.It does impact her. The chance for them, sitting among the wreckage, to just talk was a really nice opportunity.