House of Cards

[Joe Republic]

Okay now they're impeaching the president because he took a xanax and didn't publicly disclose his marriage counseling??? This f[inks]ing show...

That's not what his impeachment was about.  It was because the government (via Underwood of course) was accepting campaign money from corrupt Chinese businessmen, laundered by an Indian casino, in exchange for some lucrative trade deals in the midst of a trade war with China.

The marriage counseling and xanax was just some extra character assassination stuff that political enemies of any president always like to lap up.

[Joe Republic]

They're shooting a scene in DC this weekend.

DC, eh?  They're probably doing something political for that one.  Yawn.

[Joe Republic]

I stopped watching this show because of how they're making such an evil couple into the protagonists...

Are you serious?

[Joe Republic]

Because that's kind of a retarded reason to not like a TV show.

[Joe Republic]

So, how absurd is the 2016 map gonna be? We talking 2006 West Wing absurd, if you ask me.

Hey at least South Carolina going Dem would be somewhat plausible this time!

[Joe Republic]

Spoilerish discussion below:

So, how the heck does America Works... work, anyway?  Annihilate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and plunge their funding into a massive government works program to wipe out unemployment?  I get the appeal of the latter, but what the hell kind of appeal does the former have, if there's apparently nothing to replace them?

[Joe Republic]

Also, can somebody please shoot the random opera singer that keeps butting into my consciousness during the SUPER SERIOUS SCENES.

[Joe Republic]

Netflix should really stop trying to make original content, they're terrible at it.

You've clearly never watched OITNB.

[Joe Republic]

Petrov is a great character though. I loved his slapping Frank around like a little child.

Yeah but they really should have just straight up named him Vladimir Putin.  They're not fooling anybody.

[Joe Republic]

RIP Zoe Barnes

For some reason Zoe Barnes annoyed me

She was definitely the most annoying character, for sure.  Btw, have they gotten any more subtle about their product placement?  I seem to recall it being patheticly blatant in Season 1 with regard to video games.

Season 3 featured a blatant ad for an iPhone game app, which is admittedly awesome, but not free.

[Joe Republic]

What was the deal with Doug guilt-creepin on the transplant widow?

Oh and I don't get what Leanne's friend's data operation was all about, and how it was helping them.