It’s a great chance to remind yourself of all the weirdness or to be baffled by it all for the first time.

Film fans will immediately detect a nod to “The Shining” in the bar sequences, which possess the same echoing sense of dislocation and weirdness.

Arts advocate and writer Howard Sherman recently interviewed the faux future Veep for a series on his blog called, appropriately, “Times Square Weirdness.”