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Cappuccino Kid

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Only watched the first episode, but I'm not really digging it. The carefully balanced moral ambiguity of the first season feels like it's already out the window. Perhaps it was just that the previous episodes gradually built up to the bigger moments, but being thrown straight back in makes it all feel a bit preposterous.

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Fuck me what a start. We need that guy who used to post screenshots from Breaking Bad in here, its lovely to look at.

'There are two types of vice president...doormats and matadors, guess which I am'. Best line in anything thats been on telly ever.

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Only watched the first episode, but I'm not really digging it. The carefully balanced moral ambiguity of the first season feels like it's already out the window. Perhaps it was just that the previous episodes gradually built up to the bigger moments, but being thrown straight back in makes it all feel a bit preposterous.

It's both shocking, and answers one of the missing parallels from the original series. I don't know that house of cards has ever been about balance, or ambiguity. It's all about who Francis is going to use and abuse next: what dirt does he have on that whip candidate that was carefully deleted from her folder?

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Mentazm

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Someone needs to splice all of FU's direct to camera bit into one video. I'd watch it over and over, the tone and lull of his voice is hypnotising and terrifying at the same time. Watched the first few eps of the new series, that opener was a real gut punch and came out of nowhere.

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PeteJ

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Started S2 last night...fucking hell. Really loved the final shot of episode one with Underwood in the mirror, thought that was the perfect end to a fantastic episode.

Also, despite being in IT for over a decade I've never heard of the term

Deep Web

, but apparently it is a real thing...and it sound fucking scary.

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Wizcat

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Just watched S2 E4 (Chapter 17)

Sounds petty, but glad to see the reintroduction of real cigarettes. Felt really shoehorned in to that first episode of S2 that the production team had been told 'no more smoking'. And I say this as a non-smoker myself. It's just become an essential part of their characters that they enjoy smoking to relax together.

Also, Claire's performance during that interview, and throughout the whole series was fantastic.

This show should be dripping in accolades and awards, and deserving of every one.

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add me to the bingers club, but I've fallen 1 ep short of finishing and won't get a chance to now for a few days.

think the second series has been better than the first, love the slow build impending sense of doom on Frank as the weight of his lies and deceit come down around him.

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Wow. I think this is even better than the first series.

Spoilers up to episode 4:

Obviously that ep 1 scene was a wonderful OH MY GOD moment, but I think ep 4 has been the pick of the bunch. Agree with Wizcat that Robin Wright is absolutely fantastic, and after all the knife-edge tension of the TV interview, that one line at the end: "Sing me something". Oh, that got me.

I'm enjoying Lucas' transition to the foreground, and Jackie Sharp is a great character.

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I finished this last night. It took a lot of self-control, but I managed to get through it in short controlled burst of two to three episodes per night. And I loved it. I feel not just entertainied, but educated, and not just about US politics, but human psychology, and what drives some people to get to the top of the tree. The cast and script are brilliant, but that's been said a lot. I'd like to praise the sheer ambition of the storytelling, the way it successfully takes all the pieces of modern society and manages to weave them into a satasfying whole. It manages to dramatise Washington, throw in murder and blackmail and threesomes, but somehow never lose credibilty. It barely even feels fictional. How much of this story is reflected in the real world? I think all of it. It makes too much sense. We've probably all met or at least read about people just like these characters. They are not larger than life and it makes everything that much more thrilling. I think it will become a landmark piece of drama. And I want to add just how amazing the score is. I downloaded the first series soundtrack by Jeff Beal and it is masterful.

With all that praise, I still feel series one is just superior. The second series has mutliple plot strands, but the focus seems heavily weighted to Capitol Hill, and while that is perhaps a harder thing to pull off dramatically - essentially keep people engaged in tweleve hours of power battles using detailed knowledge of American politics - it means we see Frank in his work mode just a little too much. The absense of Zoe means not just that we lose a fiesty and beautfiul character, it also means we miss a side of Frank - the Underwood who may be ever so slightly away from the game, fatherly even, and lusting. I miss those scenes in Zoes flat where the complexities of Frank away from his wife and job play out. Underwood seems a slightly shallower character without her.

For all that though, this is serious quality TV, the best of the best, and I shall keep a close eye on news of the third series. I want to spend many many more hours with Frank.

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Ork1927

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Finished. Great stuff from start to finish.

The final episode...

Rachael's murder of Stamper was so immensely cathartic, I was cheering her on for every blow of that rock. Fucking Stamper. FUCKING. STAMPER.

Stupidly clicked this spoiler just before starting the last episode.

Only read the first 2 words though so my disappointment in what I thought was a spoiler turned to surprise.

I liked the first series, but I've loved the second.

Awesome stuff.

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