that bit reminded me v. much of "in the loop". but in the loop probably picked up stuff from house of cards to begin with.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
ok, I'm kind of mad at the ending.
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
I know, even ignoring comparisons to the UK version
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
End of first half, with 13 more episodes to come...
― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Friday, 8 February 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
ending of UK version was fucking perfect.. that red light...
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
Kate Mara masturbating on her bed for Kevin Spacey is a mental image I could have happily done without.
THE NEW POLITICO seemed like a 1999 vision of a Web 1.0 startup's office, only with MacBook Pro Retinas everywhere.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 February 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Slugline-- wonder why no one has snapped up that name
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I didn't realize that. but still that wasn't a good ending for an episode let alone for a season finale.
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the military gay choir school episode. that was a good one.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
The scene with Russo on the phone with his daughter was devastating to me. And without trying to spoil anything there's a certain major element of Underwood that's reminiscent of Cheney, no?
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
also in retrospect idg the watershed bill, but I guess I'll have to wait to have someone explain that part to me.
Ah, OK, half-way through explains a lot. I was wondering what I was supposed to make of that very open ending.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 8 February 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
still working my way thru the bbc originals, but i'm excited to check this out -- ppl's enthusiasm here is really encouraging because it looked pretty dumb in preview
a lot of my skepticism is sort of... constitutional, i guess. going from MP to PM is a little bit more of a direct line than going from congress to the presidency. but i'll guess i have to watch it.
― goole, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Spacey = Gerald Ford
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
uh goole, spoilers
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
"Most of them write on their phones!"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
whotf came up w/slugline
id even gi
― do you even frogbs? (cozen), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
I think a slugline is an insider journalism thing, like a summary for the editor
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
new commemorative dn
― frogbsline (cozen), Friday, 8 February 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
use words, man
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
wk: i'm guessing! i mean, wikipedia has the dimiwittedly non-spoilery "The series stars Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood, a ruthless politician with his eye on the top job in Washington, D.C."
― goole, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
i doubt they mean chair of the ways and means committee
yeah, i still don't know what Spacey's ultimate goal is, but you have to assume its getting to the top
― President Keyes, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
booker on the a sunday show
― goole, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
ah, ok. I didn't read anything about the show on wikipedia, just started watching it out of the blue. where it ended up going was a little bit of a surprise for me. at first I thought he was just going to set up his own shadow government to manipulate everything behind the scenes.
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I think slugline is a washington inside thing having something to do with coke and snot
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I dont' get the thing with the call girl in hiding...who was she? the one who was in the car with pete earlier on? (I'm halfway through)
― akm, Friday, 8 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― wk, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
i always forget about hookers until i watch t.v.
― scott seward, Friday, 8 February 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
just got so excited when they broke out the vote-counting whiteboard in ep 4
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
lbj didn't need no fuckin magnetic poetry strips tho
so far spacey is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay below richardson (altho part of it might be that i prefer the bluff cheerful english brand of sociopathy) but the rest of the show is probably an improvement. or maybe it's just slicker and has a lot more room to work. (i've only seen the first series of the o.g..) i like that there's more focus on mara's character's own ambition -- that was present in the original, i guess, but it kinda got overwhelmed once she started calling him daddy. i mean mara's prob gonna end up calling spacey daddy too but not in an episode and a half. i was gonna say that there's way too little Actual Whip Stuff but then they started counting votes.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
some of the to-camera speeches are pretty painful tho, yeah. spacey can't manage the transition nearly as well as richardson.
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
was rad to see noted top five the wire character norman as the guy w the ribs place
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
I started watching the original, I'm kind of struck by how differently it works on a big-screen tv. Everything is shot so much closer.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
Just finished episode 11. The origami thing at the end is a little too on the nose.
― s.clover, Sunday, 10 February 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
President is such a dunce
― President Keyes, Sunday, 10 February 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah u r
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 10 February 2013 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
all done!
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 11 February 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
liked the part where Kevin Spacey was declared king of america
the scene where he takes of his skin and eats the mouse really came out of nowhere, huh?
― s.clover, Monday, 11 February 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
and when Rosalind Shays fell down the elevator shaft
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 February 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
College episode added nothing to the storyline
― calstars, Monday, 11 February 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Filler is a grand tradition in serialized TV.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 11 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
I have 2 eps left and I dont want to watch the rest cuz it is so bad
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
lotsa suspension of disbelief but whatever.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 February 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
like what the vice president ends up doing. i am soooooooooooo sure. and then the president going for his plan. i am sooooooooooooo sure. but entertaining.
also, the president only has one person to make decisions with! i am sooooooooooo, etc, etc.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
it gets pretty overtly Shakespearean at the end. Takes it more from a sausage-making procedural thriller to melodrama/tragedy. Which isn't terrible; I enjoyed it all the way through. Except for some of the "this is the 90s!"-style dialog various characters (esp. Zoe) had to utter about Twitter and stuff.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god, the debate with the union guy and auto tuning Frank. Big chunks of this aren't going to age well.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
I h8 how they continuously and obviously signal how much time has passed throughout the series during various conversations
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 02:21 (eleven years ago) link