Julia Lous-Dreyfus's Veep becomes increasingly complex over the course of Season 1

Veep is not only good in the first season but gets consistently better over the course of the 8 episodes, as Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character becomes more nuanced and complex - till at the end she seems not just the narcissist and somewhat clumsy speaker we saw in the first episodes, funny as they were, but now someone who can go toe to toe with a repugnant Ohio politico, can nimbly dance around the corners of an issue or a situation, can rip into her staff and play them off against one another as needed, and, most surprising, suffers the hurts we all are heir to, can break down, even in public, and then can rally and use her vulnerability as a lever to knock others off balance. The ensemble cast, all types, all of them recognizable to anyone who's been around elected officials and their entourages, are consistently funny, acerbic, ambitious - and media-obsessed. It's the serio-comic version of house of Cards, which presents Washington politics in a harsher (but equally accurate, at least regarding the types and personalies) light. We can see that the arc of the narrative is carrying JLD toward a presidential campaign of her own. How can you not go there w/ her?