A thought: if you told me that “Jack Donaghy runs for president because he wants to lose and drum up publicity for his new TV network, but accidentally wins because of some Russian hackers and then has to deal with being the president of the United States for four years” was a seasonlong arc on 30 Rock, I would be like, that sounds funny, I bet there’s a lot you could do there. Avery plagiarizes Michelle Obama at the RNC? Sure. Jack systemically publicly humiliates Mitt Romney at a three-star French restaurant over a personal grudge? Literally sounds about right. Takes a phone call from the president of Taiwan because he thinks Jonathan’s telling him it’s his buddy Ty Wan from the Princeton Club? Hilarious.
We’ve literally gone past the point of 2016 being like a plotline on Veep. It’s so far beyond that. It’s straight up surreal now and also terrifying and I want to live in the world where none of this is happening in real life but 30 Rock is still on the air and it’s happening on there.