Kent Davison (Gary Cole) just launched Selina’s web site, which is basically an ATM that coverts personal asset currency into virtual political currency. The wheels of politics are greased by the biggest givers and the Veep’s staff wants to get greasy. As long as the Parental Controls on the Smart Watch are turned on. Selina might sit in a big donor’s lap at a dinner, but she won’t get greased up for it. No one’s getting any Pacific trim on this stop. Cra-eeg’s assumption that people, specifically content providers, want their work featured on Clovis more than they want to get paid, shows how similar the corporate model at Clovis is to the government. Or Huff Post. This whole thing is a touchy subject for TV comedy critics who like to get paid far more than they care about placement. Getting paid without providing content would be fine for most of us. Just saying.   The woman with the cute but damaged-by-fracking baby starts a tempest in the teapot. Selina can’t afford to lose single moms but can’t get the fracking woman to drink the toxic sludge Kool-Aid. Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) tells a Secret Service guy that he “has to make her go away.” As he is pulling out his gun and Amy is telling him she didn’t mean to kill the fracking woman, Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh) tells the Secret Service guy to kill her. I always suspected this is how it’s done in Washington. That these little annoyances sometimes get out of hand with lethal goodwill. Cafferty is what I picture in my head when I think politician, old, worn out, his prick a distant memory lost in folds of flesh, ever ready to put the least happy spin on every compromise. Sadly he is still outranked by Davison, the other political reality. And Davison is on his way to fawning sphincter-licker at Clovis. Dan is on his way to Cafferty’s fate. His poker face is as inscrutable as his personal politics. There is nothing to give away. There is nothing there. Cafferty may have started with something. Dan starts with nothing. He has nothing to lose. He can get as dirty as he needs and will still come out smelling like the shit he is. The Clovis team of internet startup brats also notices Amy. She’s a head above the rest of the Washington crowd. She’s open to dialogue and innovation. Amy’s just not open to the sheer optimism of Clovis. She’s much better served flushing the Vice President’s not so virtual turds. Sure, Melissa from Clovis can buy a thousand Amys, why just with the money they saved from dumping Jonah’s Ryantology stocks, but can she get the Smarch out of her ass? I like how Rupert Grint from the Harry Potter movies, who’s not even at the Clovis Town Hall meeting, gets a much more thunderous applause than Selina does, and she’s standing right there. Every little slight plays off Dreyfus’ microscopic comic viewfinder with laser-like precision that comes off expertly sloppy. She wins every battle only to lose every war. Wonderful day, wonderful device. Wanna take one home? No. On a scale of one to fucked, this episode is a half star short of totally Ron Jeremy reamed. “Clovis” was written by Sean Gray & Ian Martin and directed by Christopher Morris. Den of Geek Rating: 4.5 Out of 5 Stars