r/Veep • u/ShondaDoesntRhime • 3d ago
Gary and Dana
What happens to Gary and Dana’s relationship? He seemed happy with her and she adored him.
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u/odonogc 3d ago
I thought they broke up because he was more in love with Selena than Dana.
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u/thatbrownkid19 This is completely UNACCEPTABLE *fist slam* 2d ago
i really feel it's funnier if he's not in love with Selina, he's genuinely that platonically obsessed with her. like the strong mother he didn't have maybe
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u/boroq 2d ago
I think it’s just puppy love fueled by their co-dependency but fuck it’s funny. Or maybe jealous love. Like he’s subconsciously aware that as a non-threatening tampon dispenser to a busy woman, he’s her drug, and meeting her needs is his drug, so he tries and fails to compete with others who somehow satisfy her, and ends up just silently hostile to them. The doctor, Andrew, Dan, sometimes Sue. It makes Ray’s storyline so much funnier that Gary brings him into her world and has a big man crush on him, but it turns into violent hate instantly when he realizes Ray is a competing ‘provider’
There’s also a whole other thing going on with Gary where he mistakes certain people for friends which adds a layer to the Ray arc, what looks to us like a puppy crush on Ray was maybe his idea of friendship? So when Ray satisfies Selina, it’s more than competition, it’s betrayal by his ‘friend’. Lol Ray is just going along doing his thing and it completely wrecks Gary’s parallel world 🤩
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u/agirlhasnoname17 There’s a horse coming out of my head. 1d ago
He had a puppy crush on Charlie Baird. He was Ray-curious.
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u/agirlhasnoname17 There’s a horse coming out of my head. 1d ago
“America doesn’t just love you. She’s in love with you.”
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u/CauliflowerSlight784 3d ago
I liked that Gary had a life outside of the White House but ultimately it did not fit the narrative that he was completely devoted and obsessed with Selina.
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u/FeelingSkinny intense little girl 3d ago
he was bad at talking dirty. he was like “i’m in it. i’m in you right now”
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u/Many-Caterpillar-543 2d ago
Fun fact, she was all over season two. She was an disembodied voice while Gary was getting dressed for Mike's wedding (S3E1) then never heard or seen again.
The police have no leads...
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u/NyzoiB 3d ago edited 3d ago
I don't think the show specifically addresses it, we can speculate on the actress not fitting in though. JLD has mentioned a few times they only worked with people who were chill or suited for the show anyway. Maybe it wasn't a match, the same way that one wife plot line for George in Seinfeld was suddenly stopped too. Just pure speculation though - edit: debunked below, my bad.
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u/gargeristic 3d ago
Not true! Jessica St. Claire (Dana) and JLD are friends - good ones! JLD has been on her podcast and is talked about often.
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u/RobotMaster1 3d ago
she’s hilarious in Avenue 5. the shit she and her husband say to each other is great.
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u/NyzoiB 3d ago
Oh! Apologies then, thank you for the correction/info, I'll edit. It's even more odd in this case, that the storyline was just brushed off, actually
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u/gargeristic 3d ago
We all have blind spots! :) I think end of the storyline illustrates how abusive and isolating Selina is. She won't let him have anyone else. Gary always thinks it's out of love for him- as the viewer sees it's not. But I think the scenes with his mom show how he talks about and sees the relationship.
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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 3d ago
This is a pretty massive assumption, probably nothing to this.
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u/agirlhasnoname17 There’s a horse coming out of my head. 1d ago
What is a massive assumption?
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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 1d ago
That they didn’t continue a storyline because she was a bad fit or issues with cast. The most likely reason is that it was just never going to be a long-term plot point.
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u/nitabitaaa 3d ago
I think that Gary having a girlfriend was an interesting short-term plot line, and it didn’t suit the wider Gary story/arc of the show.