House Of Cards TV Series

scandal does the same thing better, i now think.

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I'm four episodes in. A few notes:

(1) The newspaper intrigue is easily the weakest: it's the worst parts of Season Five "The Wire." I mean, the writers actually include a "print is dead!" "No it isn't!" exchange. American male directors still don't know how to portray female ambition without making the women look like Stepford girlfriends/wives. The caricatures aren't vivid (the Kay Graham publisher, the milquetoast editor).

(2) I've disliked Robin Wright Penn for years but she's fantastic -- easily the best person here. She gives quiet line readings and doesn't overdo the physical acting. Her smoking moments with Spacey are the best in the series.

(3) Were we really supposed to believe an editorial in a college paper thirty years ago can bring down John Kerry? Cuz holy shit. Swift Boat people, you sucked this year!

and lol @ at the Serious Liberal Woman whom Mara replaces dressing like Joni Mitchell in 1972.

I did like the Jeananne Garofalo-esque Gen-X writer that had the "twitter twat" line

the British Stamper was the best though - sooooo crepey

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S2 available to stream from tomorrow. V psyched, enjoyed S2 a lot.

Need to get round to Orange is the New Black.

*enjoyed S1 obv

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hahaha

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/is-em-house-of-cards-em-tv/283805/

'not tv'

only watched the first episode but there's a genuine holy shit moment in it

I just got 15 minutes in and realised I don't remember 80% of what happened last year so I've got to hit up a recap

My greatest hope for this season is that no one calls Kevin Spacey "daddy" during sex.

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man this first episode was ludicrous from start to finish, starting from the absurd locks that Mara's editor lover has grown.

Everything I've read about this = no desire to see it. The US political scene should only be played as doomsday farce; there's nothing Shakespearean about that brothel on the Potomac.

Good to know.

- Carl Franklin directed episode 1
- Molly Parker

Did the main things in this first episode also happen in the British series?

each of the british series was only 4 episodes long so i'd imagine it's pretty different

Main main thing hapenned at the end of the first UK series.

BBC 2nd series was about deposing the king (sorry, spoilers) so idk what the US analogue would be

deporting bieber? /dad

lol'd at cufflinks

Need to hack phone records.

lol, this show is hilarious. as soon as the words 'dark net' were uttered i was like 'o god yes'. finished episode 3 today, show really is an inverse west wing. west wing was liberal fantasy rxn to age of clinton: what if we had a good, smart, moral likeable liberal who didn't fuck around on his wife in the white house, o to dream!, this is similar rxn to age of obama: what if we had some democrat that knew how to work the system, someone who wasn't afraid to get dirty, was able to stand up to and outsmart the tea party, what if we had someone who GOT STUFF DONE. huge lol that the big deal fu managed to thru his machiavellian genius and cunning managed to get thru the senate was a deal that gave the tea party 98% of what they wanted after they'd already moved the goal posts and gave the president nothing except preventing a shutdown and a 'bipartisan deal'. i'd almost think that was intentional if i thought this show was capable of insight or subtlety.

then you better have a scotch before watching Episode Four.

Lol @ that one sex scene near the end

Mr Fang, emissary of the Chinese government.

goodness me the vice president's portfolio has expanded since the days of Adams.

Balls otm

ah clean em off with a hose

LOL

'what do you think, jean?'

'fuck 'im.'

ep 5 all the civil war stuff was incredible.

i like how just deeply mordent the show can get, surreal flashes of bleak imagery.

(oh and obv. he's not getting anything important done, that's i think one of the reoccurring themes -- that getting anything done [much less anything right done] matters less than looking like you're getting something done, which matters only because that's how you get more power)

still on ep 1 but lol morbs accidentally giving this show credit for being shakespearean

'he's worried about his marriage counseling, as he should be.'

'if you're worried about your marriage counseling, you shouldn't be.'

Loved Ep1. Loved the whole pregnancy/makeup/ageing thing going on, I've got a feeling I'm going to enjoy this season a lot. Oh, and [spoiler] that happened in ep1 actually happened at the end of the British S1, iirc.

one of the lines above was the "taste the bone" bit in the civil war ep. another of those was the "slow bleed" bit from freddy. super writerly, but i like the idea of a world where at any moment an unexpected person just slips into that -- reminds me of all things, of onion's porkin' across america.

I'm almost done. Lurid trash, it turns out, and all the better for it.

Seriously, Robin Wright's just amazing. Known a number of women like Claire (minus the evil part) and haven't seen them portrayed so fully. She's a master of nuanced head-tilts.

I'm almost done. Lurid trash, it turns out, and all the better for it.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 February 2014 16:15 (1 hour ago) Permalink

otm, they're really embracing that this season. consequently it's way more entertaining.

so much of this season is so ridiculous (the Underwoods insisting on transforming their brownstone into the veep's manse, the obviousness with which Spacey telegraphs unctuousness, the First Lady's jealousy) that the producers should say fuck it and let Robin Wright lead. I love the way she makes erotic neutral colors like slate; it's like her acting.

they should say fuck it and follow congresswoman molly parker around, ungh

BBC original has been remastered in HD if, like me, the crappy , sub-DVD version on Netflix gives you a headache.

Just finished episode 11. I'm sure there were far fewer sexy times in S1 as there is this time round, even including FU and the tiny journalist. Tho I suppose interrogating the ways that sex=power is integral to both this and the BBC series.

just finished the season. bummed about stamper. presumably season three is the house falling down. threesome was lol.

I'm an episode and a half from the end. We saw Chinese Guy's exploits. Is there another involving a certain Secret Service guy?

I think this show is better when it's being ridiculous. When it's trying to be "political" it's complete garbage.

Major LOLs at serious IT guy whose iphone doesn't have a passlock (and the HACKER knew it wouldn't have a passlock). Also TV interview outing rapist was hilarious. Reminded me of all those other gotcha interviews where politicians/wives called out their victimizers on live national television.

season 3 he becomes king of england, season 4 emperor of the galactic republic.

season 5 he runs for condo board