My overall rating of "Veep"'s Season 4: 5/10
So, funny story, I'd actually started Season 4 by watching Episode 10 on accident, and didn't realise it until after the fact. I was surprised by how consistently they kept referring to events inside the "timeskip" (my thinking was they'd have a flashback episode or something, having skipped to the juicy bits), but otherwise it all made sense, and the show'd seen some pretty big timeskips in the past... I'm not sure it's an indictment of "Veep" being cookie-cutter "just add swearing" or whatever, but anyway, the episode works well enough. There is some cringier humour with Karen (it's incredible that this one-note character returns, come to think of it, but first time around she isn't bad) or the writers' meanspiritedness towards characters' personal lives (wow, I'm actually defending something to do with Catherine, that's a first, I think - or, like, a 2nd, after her scene with Jonah in "First Response").