House Of Cards TV Series

I kept thinking of him as a mcpoyle brother and it was only mildly distracting

Meechum is so fucking hot.

ha really?

Threesome was lol but I'm not entirely sure why it was there. I'm not sure it developed anyone's character and I don't think it was referenced anywhere else. Was the point to contrast with the protestors to illustrate that the Underwoods do lots of stuff you wouldn't approve? Cos that's weak.

they did threesome because evil people are all bi, duh

emphasize the relationship dynamic between the Underwoods, imo. they only work well together when they're screwing somebody else.

ha really?

― balls,

He's okay. Unlike a lot of actors who get stupid when they loosen their collars he was cool laughing and slugging bourbon. On the other hand, no secret service guy who's spent months chauffering his guy to a young reporter's place would not only have the acumen to guess his boss is bi but the audacity to caress his hand.

plus meechum's not really secret service.

The Citadel episode was one of the best in Season One, and showing Frank as having had a relationship with a dude there--so this seemed like a good continuation of building the complexity of his character. Also harkened back to all interesting open-relationship dynamics between Frank and Claire in the first season.

There were definitely a lot of differing sexual dynamics at play in the season, from Stamper's creepy addictive stalking to the cold open to that one episode with Feng paying off that couple for his asphyxiation play session

The A-plot is so convoluted this season it's kind of boring.

You mean "play billionaire against his friend, the president, until both self-destruct?" There are a lot of pieces that vary throughout the episodes but it's pretty straightforward.

Finished this the other night, enjoyed it a lot more than the first season because it was just so much more lurid. And there was minimal Zoe Barnes in it.

The Stamper/Rachel plotline was definitely the best though, Doug was such an awesome character.

just finished it last night. am i a simpleton for growing to hate the underwoods and wishing for bad things to happen to them, along with Stamper? I was all "good. he deserved it."

and yes there were many, many twists that were just so ridiculous. the threesome being example #1. except it wasn't really a twist - it went nowhere fast.

Also finished this last night (whoa). I had a hard time following the specifics of Franks machinations tbh but that didnt affect my enjoyment of the show too much. I kinda dont get why anyone would conspire with him; clearly he's a slimy traitor.

because you could end up being vice president or w/e

Absolutely loved season 1, but what's all this nonsense with guinea pig crushing, civil war reenactments and sinister auto-erotic asphixiating Japenese businessmen?

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.