House Of Cards TV Series

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?

his wife wasn't supposed to kill the bill! the bill passing was supposed to have the added bonus of making Frank look good.

but why did it all matter if the plan all along was to destroy russo?

because the plan was also to boost his own credentials.

I don't know, it just seemed so important for about one episode and then didn't seem to matter at all just a couple of eps later. and in between it didn't feel like there was some epic dramatic struggle to salvage his plans and get everything back on track.

i was also confused-- the failure of the bill barely harmed his overall plan, so I couldn't figure out why it was so important. The fallout of the failure should have been bigger, I guess.

also, how did the watershed bill reflect on underwood? I can't remember. it seems like getting russo elected is what was supposed to boost underwood's credentials, but if he was always going to ruin the guy, then the scandal would have hurt underwood's credibility either way because it would have looked like he backed russo without vetting him properly, right?

btw, the cheney connection I mentioned upthread is that cheney also headed up the vp selection process and then ultimately selected himself, didn't he?

yup! cheney was the first thing I thought of when they used that plot idea

My take is that while the watershed bill was conceived mostly as just a pawn on Frank's chessboard, as he tells us, he hates being wrong. He's the Whip, and his ability to get the whip count right is why he's the whip. Regardless of its importance to his plan, he is capable of being distracted by a little thing like losing a vote.

It's either a supermassive plot hole, or it'll come out in S2 that Frank dbl-xd his wife and meant for the bill to crash and burn.

silby otm, I think

why did it end like that, seems like they left some stuff hanging

what was weird is that they didn't necessarily leave it in a bad place plot wise, but it was soooo poorly executed that it felt like they did.

yeah like maybe if the final scene had been the vp announcement and you know the slugline investigation is hanging over his head

also how they refer to it as slugline dot com is so unrealistic no one has had dot com in their name since like 2002

It was a strangely underplayed cliffhanger.

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/house_of_cards_is_bogus/

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I heard real community colleges aren't like what you see on Community

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