In the second episode of Veep, Selina Meyer almost tasted power when the president fell ill, but it was she who wound up bearing the worst effects of a nasty stomach bug.

A running conversation between DCist and the City Paper’s Arts Desk about Veep, HBO’s new series about the vice presidency.

In Veep, a new comedy debuting Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO, Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a vice president with nothing to do but suffer through the political cuckoldry of the job.