House Of Cards TV Series

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...

I'm liking season 3 more than 2 so far (I finished the first four last night). the main problem for me believing that Underwood is any kind of Democrat when his big plan is scrapping SS, Medicare, and Medicaid.

I'm liking season 3 more than 2 so far (I finished the first four last night). the main problem for me believing that Underwood Clinton is any kind of Democrat when his big plan is scrapping SS, Medicare, and Medicaid.

season 3 indeed

heh

ok during spacey and robin wright's big fight at the end of episode 6 he just completely drops his southern accent for 15 minutes in a row, did this intensely bother anyone else?

like all season he's saying "hwhat" and "hwhere" and i do declare but suddenly becomes glengarry glen spacey and no one on the set noticed? does he have that much clout?

his accent is terrible anyway, he should just drop it for good

his accent sucks but whatever, this season was great, last episode best of all three series.

best ep of this season was the debate one

overall this show is a drippy wet bloated embarrassment tho

what do you want for your televisual entertainment?

less hubris, more intelligence & humor, same amount of satisfyingly crisp set design & lighting

Loved 1, hated 2, still undecided whether to bother with 3.

final confrontation b/w Claire and Frank is the worst

yeah, it took me 3 tries to get through the last 3 episodes - kept falling asleep.

the Stamper subplot was plodding as hell but it was the only appealing bit because it was legitimately creepy and the only real connection to the original story arc.

the politics/foreign policy was batshit crazy - which it basically has been since the beginning but it gets distractingly batshit this season.

and the frank/claire interpersonal stuff that was intended to get deeper this season just goes around in circles the whole time.

should have stuck to what made it fun in the beginning, the machiavellian political plotting and reporters vs pols cat and mouse stuff.

should have stuck to what made it fun in the beginning, the machiavellian political plotting and reporters vs pols cat and mouse stuff.

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You should watch the UK original, it is pretty much all this.

Stamper subplot, toward the end, felt like generic sadist network TV (the plot-drivers I've seen when flipping through NCIS, Hawaii 5-0, Cold Case, etc.), not what I showed up to watch.

The key to so many good HBO shows, and true to this one as well, is that when they're at their best, these stories could only happen in the specific city in which they're set. Even if there's corruption and sex everywhere, it's the D.C./Baltimore/Hollywood/Jersey/Manhattan details that make it worth the time for me. Stamper as a character was compelling in this way, as a portrait of a D.C. workaholic, but his story by late in the series felt almost from another show.

how many of these shows get BETTER after the first season? feel like i watch a lot of great first seasons and then...

comedies tend to get better as they develop. not so much these kind of shows.

maybe i'm talking more about netflix shows in general. HBO has a pretty good track record.

not every show can be the good wife...

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Yeah, good points for sure - but it really was follow-through from the initial plot. Whether or not he could bring himself to kill her has been a plot point from the first season on. So I know where you're coming from but to me anyway it seemed like they'd been building toward it for a long time... but generally I totally agree about the specificity of the world and its players being the strongest stuff in the show and this arc did wander off from that.

The Wire got better – its first season was an above average cop show – but after the second season.

the fall and the killing were like that for me. such strong first seasons and then they just get sillier and less believable.

i haven't watched lillyhammer. felt a little too high concept the sopranos goes to norway to me. but maybe its great! (have no desire to watch marco polo either...)

the killing i hated the middle seasons but came around on the final season. the fall season 2 was a letdown.

I think I enjoy this show more for its ridiculousness. In more grounded programming I tend to wind up proactively bumming myself out knowing that the more fantastical plot devices hinted at won't actually come to fruition, whereas nothing's off limits on this show. A VP can murder someone on the train station without being detected! etc.

which isn't to say that makes the show above critique obv, but by s1 ep 2 it was already straining credulity anyway.

Four episodes into season one. In general, getting better, with one major exception where I can't see that I'm ever going to change my mind: Spacey. He just seems so corny to me, especially when he addresses the viewer directly.

deleted scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0

lol

I really hope the bad accent is leading up to a Season 4 reveal that he's actually from Cleveland Ohio and his real name is Casper Fielding

Is it a bad South Carolina accent?

Sometimes.

it's wildly inconsistent. I remember asking my friend (who was a big fan) "dear God does his accent get any better" when I started watching it.

This seems like a pretty thorough breakdown of what he's messing up. Seems like a good point that a South Carolinan of Underwood's class and age would talk like Lindsay Graham:

http://www.vox.com/2015/2/27/8119829/house-of-cards-spacey-southern-accent

and have Graham's secret habits.

also, lindsay graham is a woman. but that's common knowledge. not much of a secret.

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Troels Hartman made such a great Evil Putin Clone that I was prepared to overlook the ridiculousness of him agreeing to share a table with Actual Pussy Riot.

Whole thing is at its best when its at its trashiest.

Agree with previous posters that the first season was best but imo that's no surprise. I'm not a big fan of this "new wave of serious TV-shows" or w/e (actually I feel that a lot of people/critics fail to recognize flaws and problems with 10+ hour dramas on "low" budgets without much "style") but I do enjoy them because they are so addictive. Anyway, I was wondering: Whenever a sequel to a movie comes out, a lot of people feel skeptical like "oh this is just an easy way to make money" etc. but the attitude towards modern TV-shows seem entirely different. Is this weird or just me?

(with regards to announcing 2nd, 3rd, or 4th season of a show)*

there's plenty of criticism for shows that overstay their welcome, or tarnish the memory of earlier seasons.

yeah - I think especially since the (by all accounts) terrible ending of Lost and the triumphant last season of Breaking Bad, people put a pretty huge premium on the idea of a dramatic series ending well and building toward something rather than fizzling out.