My overall rating of "Veep"'s Season 2: 5/10
This episode is probably the best of the season, and has all the trappings of a perfect finale. Pretty much all characters are gathered together, their stories getting significant payoff all at once, and the final stretch which combines so many elements and characters is purely excellent. It even gives payoff to bringing these two presidential strategist characters into the show in a joke - while I'm still not convinced they were that needed, I appreciate what they were supposed to reflect, although it's a bit subtle and/or contrived, depending on how you look at it. There is just so much hilarity throughout the episode in even the subtlest moments of characters reacting to other characters' lines, in the changing body language, in the off-hand phrases - it's a golden example of the Iannucci political comedy, with its unrelenting joke-a-second pace. Additionally, the plot itself is dynamic and quite smart as a whole...
...but not in all parts. Selina's dialogue with Furlong, and Chang's sudden arrogance and mockery are lazy narrative devices; and while I obviously don't know D.C. political culture well enough to say for sure, everybody immediately starting to look for jobs is a bit strange, considering how the event they're abandoning ship for is 2 years down the line... Are they all thinking there's no point to stay simply because the end is in (distant) sight?.. Bizarre.
And, as always, there are problems with shot continuity, the most egregious being the shot of Jonah and Mike walking towards each other at the fair, where they teleport away from each other for a bit.