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Just finished watching all 4 seasons of House of Cards

Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:02 pm
Posted by Sentrius
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Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:02 pm
Regrettably, I'm sadly looking forward to season 5 because somehow someway, the Underwoods will find a way to beat the bullshite they're in. They're like the Clintons in that regard. They deflect, obfuscate, and create distractions to cover up their bullshite like letting an american hostage die and creating some homegrown war on terror to create a fear climate to overshadow their troubles and win an election.

I really don't get and understand why we are supposed to root for the Underwoods when they're not even anti-heroes. frick no, they are straight up villains that lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, ruin people and actually kill people. Anti-heroes still actually fight evil and destroy people that actually deserve to be destroyed. The underwoods have targeted purely innocent people without a single care in the world.

The Underwoods talent is not leading people and making America a prosperous society, their only talent is destruction of everything and everybody around themselves. Officially, Frank's Presidency has only been putting fires out and doing nothing constructive and productive.

I will give Frank Underwood this. He's an incredibly and very persuasive bullshitter with his charm and folksy language and when he had that last scene in the Roosevelt room with hammerschmidt, I knew the truth about him and he still had me on the ropes and gave one hell of an argument to shut the herald article down and I can't imagine what hammerschmidt was feeling when he didn't know what the audience knew but thankfully he was stronger than that and called Frank's lying bullshite.

Oh and Claire Underwood has no soul at all. She's hands down one of the most evil people ever and you hope that women like her are at least a very rare rarity in DC. She's one of the most anti-women people you will ever meet given how many women she's destroyed in 4 seasons. Women need Claire as a feminist ally like a fish needs a wood-chopper.

Will Conway may be questionable himself but there's no doubt the Underwoods are evil and rotten to the core and has no business calling the White House their home for another four years. I hope hammerschmidt can make his article stick to them.
Posted by sorantable
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Posted on 7/31/16 at 6:37 pm to
Posted by TennesseeFan25
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Posted on 7/31/16 at 7:08 pm to
Yeah, I really liked it too
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 7/31/16 at 7:17 pm to
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Will Conway may be questionable himself but there's no doubt the Underwoods are evil and rotten to the core and has no business calling the White House their home for another four years. I hope hammerschmidt can make his article stick to them.


Will Conway is a young Frank Underwood.

The Underwoods, while absolutely awful people, are complex and that makes for good entertainment. I don't know that you're necessarily supposed to "root" for them. I think every now and again there's a little glimmer of something you can relate to. But I believe it's about as a viewer being in the passenger seat of their massive trainwreck.

I anticipate Hammerschmidt's story coming to light and before it's all over with Claire and Frank will kill each other. Like a political War of the Roses.
Posted by ohiovol
Member since Jan 2010
20829 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 8:27 pm to
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really don't get and understand why we are supposed to root for the Underwoods when they're not even anti-heroes. frick no, they are straight up villains that lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, ruin people and actually kill people. Anti-heroes still actually fight evil and destroy people that actually deserve to be destroyed. The underwoods have targeted purely innocent people without a single care in the world.


I like the show, but this is all true.
Posted by AlbertMeansWell
Member since Sep 2013
5555 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 8:58 pm to
I thought season 3 was very meh but I was glued to the screen at the end of season 4.
Posted by GurleyGirl
Georgia
Member since Nov 2015
13166 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 9:09 pm to
Agree with your assessment but I lost interest somewhere along the way in Season 3. Frankly there's enough on this depressing bullshite in the current/real life political arena and I sure don't need any more of it in my TV viewing.
Posted by Lester Earl
Member since Nov 2003
278462 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 9:10 pm to
quote:

really don't get and understand why we are supposed to root for the Underwoods when they're not even anti-heroes. frick no, they are straight up villains that lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, ruin people and actually kill people. Anti-heroes still actually fight evil and destroy people that actually deserve to be destroyed. The underwoods have targeted purely innocent people without a single care in the world.



i think you're doing it right.
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
64757 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 9:26 pm to
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Will Conway is a young Frank Underwood.



Well if he wins the election, he won't have much need for the bullshite Frank has been pulling because he will literally be at the top of the world and will be much more careful who he lets into his inner circle after he saw what happened to Garrett Walker making the mistake of leaning on a snake like Frank.

quote:

I believe it's about as a viewer being in the passenger seat of their massive trainwreck.


I agree as well. We always slow down just to see how bad the wreck is but at the end of the day, good has to beat evil and restore law and order into the natural heirachy of things and we're getting closer to that with hammerschmidt's article. We'll see if it can overcome and dodge the bullshite the Underwoods will be throwing at it.
Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
64757 posts
Posted on 7/31/16 at 9:28 pm to
quote:

i think you're doing it right.


Thanks lester.

I've been looking at the shows subreddit and there are actually a lot of people that glorify the Underwoods and want them to win and evil shall reign supreme or some bullshite like that.

This show is a sad reflection of DC politics but hopefully it will end in the right way.
Posted by illuminatic
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Member since Sep 2012
6962 posts
Posted on 8/1/16 at 9:21 am to
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a lot of people that glorify the Underwoods and want them to win


Present :raises hand:

It's a TV show bro. I usually root for the villain in most movies though. It's like rooting for the underdog in sports, you know they are going to lose but it's fun when they pull one out.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
8315 posts
Posted on 8/1/16 at 10:04 am to
The parallels drawn between the Underwoods and the Clintons is a bit tinfoilish but they are from the same mold.

Career politicians, political marriage, affairs, etc. Both have left a trail of bodies in their wake.

Politicians suck.
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