House Of Cards TV Series

That businessman was Chinese?

civil war reenactments are totally a thing in Underwood's part of the country

Like massive days-long reenactments where people never leave character?

Oh yeah duh Chinese sorry. I am racist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_reenactment#Progressive

I went to gettysburg college chap, it's a huge thing

Season 3 trailer is crazy. Frank gets super jingoistic and invades what seems to be Nigeria as prez: http://youtu.be/sFu5qXMuaJU

to save the girls?

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/really_house_of_cards.gif

^^^ show's major achievement

Frank going from President to Erik Prince would be a good move.

i kinda love this show but i really really love how tv crits can't stand this show

it's funny that they're treating it like 'seasons'.

it seems more like 'we're gonna make you watch this other long-ass thing again next year'

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/smuggif_zpsa5513c84.gif

Fan-art contest:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpuOdgCCMAASs2u.jpg

Going up in the middle of the night tonight.

Doug uses a lolWindows phone

just started. fuck's sake, how's he still around??

At a certain momennt in the second episode the president gets, ah, a rise out of something that reminded me this show's forebear isn't Advice and Consent but "Dynasty.

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Someone at work has been bugging me to watch this; found used copies of the first two seasons (?--sounds like the concept doesn't apply) last week, watched the first episode last night. (Sorry, late.)

I don't know. I hope it gets a lot better very quickly before I invest too much time in this. (Advise and Consent did cross my mind, primarily because of Spacey's corny accent.)

I sunk about an ep and a half into this before deciding it wasn't for me. I prefer my cartoon villains maybe a little more seductive, a little more inflected

At a certain momennt in the second episode the president gets, ah, a rise out of something that reminded me this show's forebear isn't /Advice and Consent/ but "Dynasty.
--guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

of course. it's up-market Scandal. i will say that the first ep wasn't bad at all. the changed dynamic - frank under siege and not owning everybody right from the get-go, is an improvement.

i was bored by this last night, and i used to really like this show. it's no longer thrilling to see how shameless frank is

i never finished the 2nd season. maria did. i got bored the more implausible everything got. just too much to ignore as far as unlikely situations go.

Yeah, when the show presents itself so seriously and cynically, the aspects that are naive and implausible are that much harder to swallow.

there are lots of scenes in all the netflix shows i have watched where there are, like, two people in a room and i can't help but think that there is no way in hell there would only be two people in the room. you can't really be clandestine with the president. it doesn't work like that. just the fact that frank and his wife and ONE lobbyist basically ran everything....a bit ridiculous.

that agent scully Fall show drove me up a wall. HUGE serial killer case in a big city and she's sitting there watching footage of the killer and one of his victims by herself! that seattle show with the mopey cops was the same deal. big high-profile murder case in a major city and those two doofuses are scurrying around by themselves in the dark with nobody else around.

i know, drama and suspense and all that. but still...all these people in real life are completely surrounded by other people.

show has greatly stepped up its cameo game, that's for sure

I'm in love with the biographer: Edward Snowden with a hangover

i know, drama and suspense and all that. but still...all these people in real life are completely surrounded by other people.

yeah I think it's unlikely that Obama would be left all by himself to urinate on his dad's grave

Enjoying the quasi-Putin and the "as themselves" cameo in ep. 3.

halfway through the new season, it's a total snooze-fest.

season three does a reasonable job of giving multiple characters story arcs, but it's Stamper's that's probably the best and most harrowing

he really has three phases: broken man, possible redemption as a decent human being, and nasty political assassin creature with little humanity (his existence prior to season three, really)

The assassin part is...not credible. Not even incredible.

@DennisThePerrin
Watching the new season of HOUSE OF CARDS is rekindling my faith in the criminality of the US political system.

i mean, he's not wrong, but that's also sort of like saying bond villains really made you understand that terrorism was bad

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Finding this dull reminds me of when folks watching The Sopranos got mad when not enough people were getting whacked per episode.

It's dull but Frank's moment of weakness with the victim of the drone attack was maybe the best character-moment in the series.

I wasn't paying full attention to Ep2 - someone want to spoil what happened with Frank when he was laying there and RWP hopped on?

Meechum sat on his face.

xp she is just RW these days, probably to the benefit of her long-term sanity and happiness

this show is about as dull as a wet fart

^^underrated Frank Underwood quote

yeah this became unwatchable for me in early s2 (not because it changed). it has a pompous color temperature.

I gave up on this early S2 as well. I think I just couldn't suspend disbelief enough for it.

thats's what i said! i'm right there with ya, poo.

maria still likes it okay. i dunno, i'm also kinda TV'd out this winter. lotta nights curled up by the warm netflix and hulu. i even got tired of Vikings after the son of anarchy became Viking king.

I've tried watching an episode of this but am having trouble not comparing it to the UK 90s version. Should I stick to it?

i've actually been looking for movies to watch on t.v.! can you believe it? positively dickensian. watched les blank garlic documentary the other night.

"Should I stick to it?"

the first season is really the best, so, if you don't like that...