TV

The queen of ‘tidying’ is captivating audiences with this question: What do you truly value?

A political satire with Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a constant presidential candidate, “Veep” gleefully exposed the hollowness of unbridled ambition, and it was fun (if also dread-inducing) through Sunday’s finale.

Daenerys Targaryen embodies the element that makes the show so deeply compelling, namely, the quest to throw off the debilitating chains of social convention.

These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.

Jordan Peele’s incarnation of the show will certainly get people thinking—and talking.

As we come to grips with a national history of violence, greed and racialized privilege, this fable of noblesse oblige rings hollow.