House Of Cards TV Series

"You thought it was making you root for Spacey's wife over the office manager she was firing? Seriously?"

totally. she was a loser. and a whiner. and i KNEW mrs. spacey was gonna have her fire everyone and then fire her. i thought that was funny. old charity worker. old political newspaper writer woman. i don't mind the dog eat dog thing on t.v. they made those characters really unsympathetic. well, especially after the newspaper woman called the young one twitter twat and metro hack.

lady in the coffee place was a loser too. i'm just getting into the spirit of the show. still think spacey should have broke crazy homeless guy's neck though while he was cuffed to the pole.

most unreal scene to me so far the early a.m. b-b-q visit. for some reason. he would have his ribs delivered.

He wants them fresh

I thought the lady in the coffee place reminded Mrs. Spacey why she must be hypervigilant at all times not to decline at all.

YES!

with the sad charity lady i wanted to say to her lady that's right you are 59 years old and you should have kept your head down and done what that bitch told you to do. you better recognize...

Old charity lady, why do you hate african children?

i mean how would you like to work with that sad lump for 10 years? 10 years you'll never get back!

its possible she just so closely resembles an actual person i would hate to work with or for that i became gleeful when she got whacked.

I still haven't finished ep 1 of this, but a big - maybe principal - pleasure of the OG series was seeing suckers getting served, even if - or because? - it wasn't fair.

well there ya go

Definitely read the Starbucks scene as a pang conscience.

Robin Wright is so fucking blank, though. I can't tell if it's great or terrible acting, whether her character is a complete sociopath, etc.
I suspect she might end up the most interesting character.

I found that Starbucks scene heartbreaking, personally.

you would, loser.

hahaha, kidding. this show has me going.

Wright was terrific on Enlightened S1 as the sociopathic hippie frenemy

Scott - probably because you've got your own shop and you're your own boss, you've forgotten what a nightmare it would be to work with people like Zoe Barnes.

i remember. that's why i have my own shop.

Finished! I recommend.

For those wondering, Allen Coulter directs the last two.

haven't seen the uk series (plan to now), but my sense is the u.s. one was very smart in making zoe as much a ruthless climber as everyone else rather than some sort of ingenue.

i love that too. so far. don't know how far she goes yet. gonna watch more tomorrow. loved her aw shucks t.v. interview. that's when i knew she was good at this thing.

ok, at ep 6 the hospital scene is super great for the wife.

Underwood is a totally underhanded badass politician. Underwood for President!

watched two more. felt so bad that he had to go down south and deal with all those losers. ugh. it must be so hard for politicans to go back home to their dumb states.

that bit reminded me v. much of "in the loop". but in the loop probably picked up stuff from house of cards to begin with.

ok, I'm kind of mad at the ending.

I know, even ignoring comparisons to the UK version

End of first half, with 13 more episodes to come...

ending of UK version was fucking perfect.. that red light...

Kate Mara masturbating on her bed for Kevin Spacey is a mental image I could have happily done without.

THE NEW POLITICO seemed like a 1999 vision of a Web 1.0 startup's office, only with MacBook Pro Retinas everywhere.

Slugline-- wonder why no one has snapped up that name

End of first half, with 13 more episodes to come...

yeah, I didn't realize that. but still that wasn't a good ending for an episode let alone for a season finale.

i liked the military gay choir school episode. that was a good one.

The scene with Russo on the phone with his daughter was devastating to me. And without trying to spoil anything there's a certain major element of Underwood that's reminiscent of Cheney, no?

also in retrospect idg the watershed bill, but I guess I'll have to wait to have someone explain that part to me.

Ah, OK, half-way through explains a lot. I was wondering what I was supposed to make of that very open ending.

still working my way thru the bbc originals, but i'm excited to check this out -- ppl's enthusiasm here is really encouraging because it looked pretty dumb in preview

a lot of my skepticism is sort of... constitutional, i guess. going from MP to PM is a little bit more of a direct line than going from congress to the presidency. but i'll guess i have to watch it.

Spacey = Gerald Ford

uh goole, spoilers

"Most of them write on their phones!"

whotf came up w/slugline

id even gi

I think a slugline is an insider journalism thing, like a summary for the editor

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