John Powers

Everyone is either a fool, a knave or a monster in HBO's hilariously scabrous political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. After seven seasons, Veep ends its run with its sharp teeth fully intact.

Over the years, the HBO series has risen from being a nifty potboiler to a timely expression of a zeitgeist that contests everything from gender roles to climate change to immigration.

In the new TV series Mrs. Wilson, the British actress Ruth wilson stars in the true story of her own grandmother who discovered that her marriage wasn't what she thought it was.