Marjorie Palmiotti, Veep

Marjorie Palmiotti (Clea DuVall)

On the political satire Veep, Marjorie was introduced in Season 5 as a secret service agent and president Selina Meyers’ body double. In 5×06 it is revealed that she and the presidents daughter Catherine had fallen in love and were in a relationship. Marjorie resigned as an agent and the two of them spent the rest of the season as a couple. They’re both minor/secondary characters with short appearances.

Season 6

Catherine and Marjorie are still together, with Marjorie heading up the Meyer fund, and have short appearances as a background/side plot in each episode. In episode 2 they announce they want to have a baby and they ask regular character Dan to be their sperm donor.

In episode 4, while at the gynecologist with Dan, they started considering a natural method of conception because artificial insemination didn’t “feel organic”.

Dan: “Why don’t we just puppy pile, okay? Then we’ll all get a bite to eat afterwards, you know. See a movie or something. You know, we’ll make it nice.”
Marjorie: “It could be interesting. He does have very delicate features.”

The idea is scraped because Dan has very low odds of being able to conceive. In episode 5 they ask their last resort, regular character Richard, former campaign aide and later Chief of Staff, who agrees.

Female love interests:

• Catherine Meyer (Sarah Sutherland, lesbian, recurring, 26 episodes)

Relationship story arc with a woman: Yes

No male love interests

Relationship story arc with a man: No

Male love interest after being identified as a lesbian? Yes. They considered sex with Dan to get pregnant

Filter Relationship Arc:

• Female (Recurring)

Storyline during sweeps? No

[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.