House Of Cards TV Series

new commemorative dn

use words, man

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."

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

booker on the a sunday show

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.

I think slugline is a washington inside thing having something to do with coke and snot

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)

yes

i always forget about hookers until i watch t.v.

just got so excited when they broke out the vote-counting whiteboard in ep 4

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.

some of the to-camera speeches are pretty painful tho, yeah. spacey can't manage the transition nearly as well as richardson.

was rad to see noted top five the wire character norman as the guy w the ribs place

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.

Just finished episode 11. The origami thing at the end is a little too on the nose.

President is such a dunce

yeah u r

all done!

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?

and when Rosalind Shays fell down the elevator shaft

College episode added nothing to the storyline

Filler is a grand tradition in serialized TV.

I have 2 eps left and I dont want to watch the rest cuz it is so bad

lotsa suspension of disbelief but whatever.

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.

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.

Oh god, the debate with the union guy and auto tuning Frank.
Big chunks of this aren't going to age well.

I h8 how they continuously and obviously signal how much time has passed throughout the series during various conversations

Not liking ep6 at all. Probably not a coincidence that Joel Schumacher was involved.

Frank goes from subtle, masterful Machiavellian to openly using the mother of a dead kid? Really?

Oh FFS

they get to do all the things they want with the plot all the time

did the end of the college bros episode rely heavily on someone's crib notes taken at a viewing of Brokeback Mountain?

it made perfect sense to me to be subtle and crafty on the hill, but make big huge crass gestures to manipulate the general public.

Finally finished this last night. Enjoyed it, but got annoyed with Mrs Underwood. She went all weak and menopausal. I was enjoying thinking she was a total hard nut, and then she turned squishy.

Except for some of the "this is the 90s!"-style dialog various characters (esp. Zoe) had to utter about Twitter and stuff.

wait huh? twitter didn't exist in the 90s iirc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlSgsXYqdw

it made perfect sense to me to be subtle and crafty on the hill, but make big huge crass gestures to manipulate the general public.

didn't say ridiculous. def crass though -- total opportunist political theatre.

but, by that same token, smart and effective.

Episode 10 - in which shit gets really real

I wondered about the dead kid thing, in the UK being that brazen would backfire so badly. Suspect it doesn't work too well in the States either.

Utterly confused by ep13.

a few eps/plot points bugged me but overall i really liked this & i dont usually go in for political dramas @ all. i think a big part of it was that it was so un-sorkin-y

For a political drama with a lot of talking (like, it's 95% talking quickly) it was mercifully absent of zingers. For all that, I thought that the political plot line wasn't as convincing or interesting as I would hope? I don't know what I expected, but I was wanted a bit more stone-hearted evil from Frank. Thought the soap opera bit of it was a lot more convincing. Don't understand the criticisms about it being to allegorical or whatever - it's a political drama, what do you expect?

The Claire Underwood character is pretty much the star of this imo. It kept looking like she was about to crack (like when he lobbyist dude comes onto her at a dinner or something), but only for a millisecond, then she composes herself and gets back on track. Such a good performance - it's easy to do ice queen, but hard to make that ice queen a human rather than a cipher.

Paper swans = I HAZ FREE SPIRIT!!!11! is a meme in waiting, clunky 6th form symbolism needs to GTF.

so has this been out long enough to talk spoilers? so wtf was the point of the watershed bill part? his wife kills the bill and ruins their plan but then wait, their plan was always to ruin the guy anyway, so... huh?