House of cards

Meh

Never been a massive fan of this, but I stuck with it because I figured it was reaching its end game. That they could just replace the showrunner suggests it's not the closed-ended show I thought and Netflix will just keep making seasons until Spacey has gotten bored. I'm not in the market for that.

This show is terrible about halfway through season 2.

And they made it to season 5? lol

Season 3 was terrible. I get why they did it I guess, but it still sucked. We don't want to see Frank floundering around. We want to see him being a snake and dominating.

I think they are going to have Claire running against Frank.

Indeed, he got to the top way too quickly. What people loved about the first two seasons, and season 1 for me personally, was to see him at a relatively high (but not that high) position in government. From there he manipulated people at all levels to get what he wanted and to advance.

He got to the top and now we see him with no control in his personal and professional life. Who knows... maybe the writers are trying to portray just how hard being the POTUS is and just how much push back the position gets on everything it does.

What really annoys me is that...there's nothing wrong with being a trashy soap opera! If they would just go full ham with the craziness and double-down on shite like Frank whizzing on his dad's grave and spitting on Jesus statues it could be a bananas good time. But somehow they convinced themselves they're making this sophisticated drama and so you end up with a lot of posturing about examining the corruption of the political landscape when the writers can't back up their wannabe navel-gazing with any substance. The show is handsomely shot, but it's utterly hollow. End it already.

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and Breaking Bad

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The guys who wrote a 60 minute episode of chasing a fly?

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The guys who wrote a 60 minute episode of chasing a fly?

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I'm not a fan of the episode and took a month long break in the middle of that episode, but at least it was some sort of a risk and not just bullshite symbolism that people say on a daily basis.

You know the more I think about the eggs from House of Cards, the more frustrated I become. Seriously, look at this garbage: LINK. All that happened was Claire throws Frank under the bus to become Ambassador to the UN, and then the show acts like cracking eggs is just as dramatic and incredible as "Rosebud" was in Citizen Kane. There is nothing we learn here and only a moron would think that is actually dramatic instead of perplexing and off-putting as hell. If it's a soap opera, sure, but not for a show that thinks of itself as the Wire.

And thinking it through, LOST also utilized someone frying eggs to much greater effect: LINK. Sayid is taken against his will by an unknown loan shark, who turns out to be the biggest monster in the LOST universe. He offers to make Sayid some eggs, even going so far as offering to poach them for him, and repeatably offers eggs to him. This is kind of a test for Sayid: if Sayid accepts, then Keamy is going to have his way with him (mentally and physically) because he was dumb enough to accept them; if Sayid doesn't accept them, then it shows that Sayid is actually intelligent and sees him for the monster he actually is. And he eats in front of him trying to exert dominance over him telling Sayid that he is really meaningless to him and he is a no one. It tells you a lot more about the scene and the characters than Claire just breaking an egg to make an omelette.