House of Cards
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- _me_0
i binged it this weekend... well up to episode 12 so far... it's OK, Certainly not as good as the first 2 seasons... You can see things coming a mile away... But certainly enjoying the relationship between Underwood and the Russian president...
- bklyndroobeki0
EP 1... meh
- 10min in though LOLbklyndroobeki
- really good cinematography.bklyndroobeki
- formed0
I liked season 3 more than season 2. I agree you could see a lot of things, but I also didn't know where they'd stop.
- bklyndroobeki0
...OK... it stays
- futuremongolian0
Stopped watching season 3 after Russia got involved. Impossible to suspend disbelief between that ridiculous shit and the product placements.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- bklyndroobeki0
So it's all about power, the addiction of power?
What's the premise of Breaking Bad? Same?
- bliznutty0
House of Cards really gives the viewer the real ugly truth of what politics is really all about. In a nutshell, a politician uses everyone around them in order to get ahead (even their spouses). They will lie, steal, threaten, and even kill in order to get elected and/or maintain power. No matter how you look at it, the government is a void in the free market which is constantly and competitively being filled by dishonest and deceiving individuals with a thirst for power.
However, we should be able to all take a clear point from Season 3, that all politicians should be limited to a single-term. Allowing multiple terms completely clouds the focus of our elected leaders to the point they don't even do their job while they are in office.. or to the point they try to manipulate voters with ill-forged legislation just to get votes. Point is that the whole system skews at the point elected leaders try to get 're-elected'
- nb0
^ Hahahahahahaha.
We should definitely not change democratic policies just because you saw a ridiculous TV show and for some reason think it's "the real ugly truth of what politics is all about."
- nb0
The music in season 3 is great.
- bklyndroobeki0
Are they basing F Us life off of G W?
Also, LOL @ faux Putin!
- bklyndroobeki0
Apparently in 2013 this was the mos downloaded show on netflix X the globe. Says something.
- bklyndroobeki0
spoiler alert season 3 >
- >bklyndroobeki
- (don't read below, forgot how the new notes work)bklyndroobeki
- why does Doug have to get rid of the girl?bklyndroobeki
- Are you asking about the original motive? She was a whore who can name names.DRIFTMONKEY
- Ultimately, I think he did it out of loyalty, so there would never be loose ends out there that tie back to Frank.DRIFTMONKEY
- She can connect F.U. to Russo's arrest, the drinking set-up, which would certainly start an inquiry into Russo's fate.nb
- Also, if interrogated by police she might mention the reporter that questioned her about Frank. And she knows who Doug is. This would end Frank's career.nb
- tx bro!bklyndroobeki
- Ramanisky20
I know I'm late to this party ....
just binged the 1st season and really enjoyed it.also some solid big name directors working on this.
- S1 & S2 are good. It loses steam in S3.nb
- You spoilin' bastard ...
J/kRamanisky2
- CALLES2
damn season 4 is excellent so far
- nb2
If anyone sees any Behind The Scenes articles or videos, I'm curious what lenses they're using in Season 4. I know they used to talk a lot about it, but i haven't seen any features on S4 cinematography. I feel like they've stepped it up a notch with a lot of the shots. Looks like your watching medium format. I presume it's high-end wide-aperture primes, plus they seem to be enhancing the DOF with green-screening. Just curious what lenses they're using. There are some pretty wide shots with shallow DOF, and I wonder if they're using some new lenses from previous seasons.
- Particularly the Pete Konczal episodes. Damn good stuff.nb