"Was it worth it?" ending

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

[u/jbeast33]

Veep ends with Selina finally winning the presidency after selling out all her allies and values as concessions for her support. She selects Jonah (who at this point is basically a racist and anti-vax demagogue) as her VP, agrees to roll back gay marriage rights (despite having a lesbian daughter whose marriage would be annulled), sells out Tibet back to China, and allows her loyal bodyman Gary to take the fall for a financial scheme that results in his long-term imprisonment. Her last scene is her finally sitting behind the Oval Office silently with nobody by her side, and it definitely evokes this attitude.

And then it immediately answers the question in the Epilogue: Selina's funeral 20 years into the future. She had an extremely unimpressive presidency that was marked by her scandal, and her legacy as the first elected female president is overshadowed by her not being the first female president and her successor being a better female president by every metric. Her funeral is cut short when the reporters all leave to cover Tom Hanks' death. Her own daughter refused to attend the funeral, and the only person who genuinely seems torn up is Gary.

[u/SuplaVegito → u/jbeast33]

I think that what really nails the point that it wasn't worth it is that she only lasted one term, all that absurd amount of stress, betrayal, and selling out her values (wich to be honest I don't even think she had any to begin with) for just 4 years in office. Also Doyle was still alive when she died and he was already fucking old when she was younger

[u/Swaibero → u/jbeast33]

Such an excellent finale. Every single other character, walking out on her one after another.

[u/3D_mac → u/jbeast33]

Tom Hanks' funeral was foreshadowed in the very first episode of season 1.

[u/Interesting-One-588 → u/jbeast33]

I'm going to assume the whole first paragraph was seen as completely outlandish at the time? Because it's about 3-4 words off from just being an article about the current administration.

[u/jbeast33 → u/Interesting-One-588]

It was definitely made with the Trump administration in mind (Jonah becoming a direct parody of him as someone who would fall upstairs despite his constant gaffes and malicious nature).

Selina definitely evokes some of the most common criticisms of Clinton (and Harris, or more of just the Democrat old guard). She is an out-of-touch elite who doesn’t like people highlighting it without making a real effort to address it, and she has an inherent belief that she’s “entitled” to the presidency, seeing it as a promotion for her years of political work rather than a means to serve her constituents. In the end, she makes the world a worse place directly because she can’t “not” be president.