Veep blasts the Beltway like a true insider, yet it’s written by a bunch of foreigners. Brits, coming here taking jobs when America is pulling itself out of an economic hole exacerbated by cheap outsourcing. But there is nothing cheap about Veep, except the shots. This isn’t just a case of outsiders seeing U.S. politics for what it is, these political punsters popped holes in their own Parliament in The Thick of It. They are veterans and Veep is on its way to satirical history the way Aaron Sorkin ruled the scene for decades. “Detroit” isn’t even the best episode of the season. It might not be the best episode of the week. It’s Selina’s daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) who winds up saving the day by doing exactly what comes naturally to her: Exactly the opposite of what she thinks she is. She could have sworn she wasn’t a violent person, but there she is breaking a guy’s nose. She hates being a poster-child for rednecks and here she is an instant hero among them for punching Lady Liberty dead in the face. Veep finds the way to corrupt her very being. Veep is going to be a dysfunctional family show as Selina’s husband Andrew (David Pasquesi) and daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) come on board. I like how the Veep writers always find a specific point of contention and push it as a final solution. Selina can’t stand having her husband around, she can barely stomach looking at his tie. She’s fucking her wellness guy, played by an arrogantly new agey Chris Meloni, though that secret got out pretty fast, and family time is complicated anyway. Catherine hates everything she is being asked to do and winds up guaranteeing that she’ll never stop doing it. Whatever it is that the characters hate doing most is what they’re stuck with. Politics is hell. Of course the family is going to come on board the campaign trail. It’s the last place any of them should be. Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh) gets sadder and sadder. He shows that he knows everything that’s going wrong just like he telegraphs that he really isn’t in any position, or in any mood, to do anything about it. He barely wants to pay attention. Dan Egan (Reid Scott) is a bullshit bulldozer. But he is self-bullied by how he sees Ben, a man who can write sound bites that make police horses cry. Watching Dan implode never gets old. At the job fair, he looks like he’s going to sever the top of his head with his clipboard. Kent Davison (Gary Cole) was positively jubilant tonight, not just that fake exuberance he gets from manipulating numbers. And not just because we can see, in his head, that he actually worked well on a team with Sue (Sufe Bradshaw).   Jonah (Timothy Simons) is actually becoming a political player, in that he can ruin a play. He leaks the “too many guns” quote and helps George Maddox (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) hijack a photo-op handshake. “Detroit” was written by Kevin Cecil & David Quantick & Andy Riley and directed by Tim Kirkby.  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!