House of Cards
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- plash0
just finished it; was fantastic!
- qoob0
Maybe this will rejuvenate Kevin Spacey's career
- formed0
Spacey is great. I thought all the episodes were there or I would have paced myself a little better!
- bliznutty0
just binge watched season 3 - damn that is such a good show. in fact, it's opening me up to see the world (and politics) in a much different light than i had previously
- eatbreathdrive0
I only watched the first episode and the scene where he came home and poured a drink and lit a cigarette and the morning scene where his wife comes up to him was beyond amazing, the photography and the soundtrack, out of this world. Can't wait to see more episodes..
- Fizik0
just took the plunge on it - trying it out.....huge West Wing fan, so political drama/washington thing right up my alley.
However I quickly learned that this is no the sunny / daytime Washington of my beloved West Wing. hehShot well, plays like a suspenseful movie. Spacey is pretty good and grow to like him pretty fast, even as devious as he appears to be.
Writing is not as good as anyone is saying, there really isn't that much to it and relies on the plot to have any substance.
The whole newspaper/reporter angle harks to Newsroom -- so it's like underbelly West Wing x Newsroom. Hard to deny.
Will keep watching, 3 eps in.
- Fizik0
oh right, came to this thread because I was wondering what the font is in the title logo.
Kind of obsessed with the look of that logo/typography right now. Simple, not entirely genius, but has a great modern feel.
- Wolfboy0
Was his career in the gutter?
- Fizik0
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/vir… Bourgeois Bold Cond.
- stoplying0
It's long, and it's Alex Jones, but he snuck in a camera to the Bohemian Grove retreat, which was the inspiration for the Elysian scenes in season 5.
- nb0
I'm on episode 5. No spoilers here.
The main reason to watch it is the pretty Season 3 looks the best so far, beautiful shots. Far too many camera movements, though. There are some hilarious moments when basic cutaways have camera movements for like a second. It's like David Fincher told them exactly how to film his style, but they stopped listening when he said "don't move the camera unless it helps tell the story."
The story itself is ridiculous, but if you pretend it's just fantasy politics, then it's fine. The last half of Season 2 was also ridiculous, so yeah.
- Ambushstudio0
Francis is the shit
- nb0
The built-in advertising is really ruining it, though. Writing scenes just so they can show off a product, a commercial within the show, takes you right out of it.
No spoilers, I promise: There's a scene where some generic lawyer-type character shows Dunbar the Jordan valley on his tablet. It's the worst scene, yet. Dunbar and her assistant look at him and the tablet with such intensity. He takes a moment to pause to show them a fucking map of Jordan. Dunbar is the Solicitor General of the USA, and he's like, "look at this picture of a map. Jordan. Ever hear of it? Didn't think so." She leans in, her eyes wide with amazement.
Then he says, "here, better yet" or something and walks around his office so that they can show a close-up of the tablet as he swipes the image from his tablet to his TV. Of course, we see the Samsung logo, and it's all done nice and slow. And Dunbar looks at the TV like WOW.
She is impressed. This man knows how to present information with visual aids. Let's hire him, on the spot. "When can you start?" she asks. "I think I just did", he replies all cool like the amazing man that he is.
Anyway, it's really awful, but I guess the show costs a lot of money and they need to pay the bills somehow.
- 3030
It was really good, but the opening titles were too long.
Anyway, I really like the idea of Frank being narrator.
- CALLES2
damn season 4 is excellent so far
- autoflavour0
just watched the entire season in 1 sitting..
8:30am i went to bed.amazing.
- HijoDMaite0
going to be raining in SoCal this weekend. let the binge begin
- Wolfboy0
Does he say at any point "I couldn't possibly comment"
- misterhow0
Watched all thirteen since they were released last week. Truly great stuff! Good writing, great acting. When does season 2 get released?