This show was only good for a couple seasons
>whole point of the show is his ruthless pursuit of power
>doesn't do anything at all with his presidency, all of his initiatives eventually fail, gets played by russia, the senate and his wife multiple times
>eventually gets cucked out of the presidency itself
>last couple seasons are about le woman power and how Claire would be a better president
>Frank Underwood, the main fricking character, is killed off screen
The first two seasons really drew me in and I had to slog my way to the end of 5 just because I was too invested at that point. Didn't even bother watching 6
Too much gay shit. Turned it off as soon as they started peddling that garbage, but I heard it got much worse.
The gay shit wasn't too bad at first, it was subtle, but by the end he straight up jerks a guy off
I don't remember anything subtle. Sounds like you've just been worn down into accepting gay stuff.
Give me examples of what you're talking about, because it was never straight up homosexuals making out in your face. It was hinted
The British version is much better
Meant to say this. Solid three political arcs
>Rise to power
>Struggle to maintain power
>Fall
Only flaw is Francis not setting up his own death to ruin his rival and secure his legacy
Been a while since I saw it but wasn't it his wife who arranged his death to protect his legacy?
Yes and she was super heavily implied to be cucking him with the security guard. I mean its fine, but the books went with the way I said and I wish they stuck to that
This tbqh
The US one started off pretty strong but fell apart. The bongoloid one is kino the whole way through
I’ve been meaning to watch this for years, if I have a basic understanding of British politics will I enjoy it?
Yes the party leader is a Thatcherite Tory
It's almost a period piece because the PM still has the disposition that he's running a major power with some kind of teeth.
fun stuff bully boy
I mean, to be fair, there's very little you can do with a character once the actor has been accused of touching little boys.
The show lost its focus far before then. Once he reaches the presidency, the plot becomes more and more of a convulated mess
Most shows lose their focus pretty quickly. So many times I'll watch a pilot episode and think 'frick yeah this is gonna rock' then the second episode is pretty good, a little less urgency but still has something to say. Then by season 6 most of the main characters are gone and the focus of the show is on something completely different
>Most shows lose their focus pretty quickly.
Designated Survivor comes to mind
>Terrorist attack wipes out entire government
>One of the few decent politicians in the country is the new president and has to rebuild the country and maneuver all the crazy domestic panic and international fallout while the terrorists are investigated and hunted down.
>Literally everything is back to the status quo by the end of the first season.
"Little boys" being a single gay twink who was 14 and deliberately at a party full of older drunk people, the entire alleged incident was that piss drunk spacey was like HEY TWINK LETS FRICK and then Rapp was like NO and that was the literal end of it. Despite this it STILL went to trial and spacey lost his career and then was found not guilty of all charges. Check your facts you fricking massive homosexual.
It was suppose to end at 2 but netflix threw money at them to keep it going
Remind me, what was the end of season 2?
NTA, but Frank becomes President. The natural way to end the show, especially with Season 3 onwards being complete dogshit.
Yeah, but Netflix got greedy when everyone was buzzing for House of Cards and Orange is the New Black (which also went off the rails after a season or two in the books by focusing on everyone else instead)
His upcoming movie is going to have ol' Kevin right back on top!
Man that's crazy no way that would happen with a real life president.
>season 3
>the show becomes agitprop directed by the Obama administration
>the Pussy Riot as guest stars
Did Obama really have control over the show? I know they pulled real events like, draw a line in the sand and we got him. Huge eye roll moments for me
It was happening around the time the Obama admin was organizing the orange revolution in Ukraine.
The fact that the show had the real Pussy Riot (so-called punk band that oppose Putin) as guest stars in an episode was pretty clear.
What does Pussy Riot have to do with some conspiracy theory that Obama took over Season 3?
Anyway, Season 3 is the dropping off point because there was nowhere left for Frank to go except he was a shitty politician with foreign countries. He literally got cucked by the Russian President, publically. The Frank from Season 1 and 2 wouldn’t have let that slide.
When I saw House of Cards season one, I was completely unaware Frank was a murderer and it surprised me.
It was good until his off screen gay rape cost him his career and the show its narrative. Not much you can do when your main character gets hauled off to jail.
They should have replaced Kevin Spacey with someone else and pretended like nothing had changed.
he became president too fast, and then they tried to slam the breaks to slow the show down but the pacing was already fricked
At least this one knew when to end when it got really horrible by Season 3. It's sad no one seems to be able to get a presidential drama show right.
>DESIGNATED
Yup I dropped it after season 2 and read the spoilers.
It was running right around 2016 election so they had to shill the madam president stuff
The show runners probably had been threatened to have their kids kidnapped or something
>It was running right around 2016 election so they had to shill the madam president stuff
You guys forget how much of a c**t Robin Wright is. Go back and look at her raging over not being paid equally and then demanding more screentime/storylines, and finally when dumbass got accused of touching people they basically cut around him and made her the lead. All while she got upgraded in producer credits, story control, and suddenly wanting to direct. She used the #MeToo and Equal Pay movements for her own bullshit selfishness.
>She used the #MeToo and Equal Pay movements for her own bullshit selfishness.
How very Frankian
dropped it after they had a treesome with the bodyguard. Just didn't remember I was watching it
I wish the show had kept him as a congressman longer, it was more interesting when he was showing the daily frickery of congress and manipulating members into backing his bills.
Even Gerald Ford said he liked being in Congress more than the presidency.
I like how the president before Frank resigned over some dumb casino scandal that no one in real life would give a frick about.
never stick around with a show when the original showrunner leaves
Beau Willimon left after s4
audience should have left too
>Underwood was sworn in to his second term on February 17, 2017. Underwood's short-lived second term, however, was riddled with scandal. He and his administration was investigated by the Declaration of War committee, which led to his resignation from the presidency on March 15, 2017. He was succeeded by his wife and successor, Claire Hale, with Underwood becoming the First Gentleman and continuing to live in the White House. He died in May 2017 after being poisoned by his right-hand man Doug Stamper, and was buried in South Carolina. Scholars and historians rank Underwood as one of the worst presidents in American history.
The fact that they had Frank of all people willingly resign the presidency instead of going out with a bang shows how far this series fell in writing. The presidency was literally the thing he wanted the most and Season 1-2 Frank would never give it up to his wife.
The Presidency was more of something he decided on when passed up for cabinet, not his life ambition
>T. didn't watch the show or just clinically restarted
Why do you come to a thread about a show you didn't watch and join the discussion?
They pulled some bullshit out their asses, saying "he resigned so he could be the true power behind the throne, the presidency was limiting him" as reinforced by that episode where he was at the fake bohemian Grove. You can tell in the fifth season they were trying to find a way to write him out, but the show suffered as a whole because of it
>It's not about the Money, it's about the Power
later
>It's not about the Power, it's about the Money
Bravo...
This literally never happened. He emphasizes several times throughout the show power (position) is more effective than money
If you end the show with him ascending to the Oval Office then it's a 10/10. You miss out on NotPutin and a couple of other great bits but the overall show is better for it
I laughed when they first said his name, Victor Petrov (Vladimir Putin) VP. He even looked the same but taller. Although he was kino when he grew the beard
Good show. Spacey exposed himself as a super gay when he threw the baseball in that 1 episode. Sissy ass motherfricker.
Season 3 with Claire taking more of a prominent power role is where the show begins to turn to shit, but those scenes with Frank and the Russian President were kino.
Everything with Claire literally ruined the show. She wanted to be the UN ambassador and got played hard as frick by the russians. She had no right to want anything else. Frank shut her down hard (rightfully) and then she tried to sabotage him in the middle of his campaign saying she wanted to be vice president. I hard shut down on the show then and there but I was too invested and had to finish season 5 because Kevin Spacey is too damn good. But even then it was hard to finish. I never watched season 6
Robin Wright became a producer for some reason and made Claire into the main character out of nowhere so she could fulfill her weird power fantasy.
Damn she cucked Forrest Gump and Francis Underwood. She can't keep getting away with it
I couldn't watch more than 2 episodes of this show. It's just too mean spirited. EVERYONE is an butthole.
I liked the subplot with the alcoholic but okay politician Frank blackmailed and got killed at the end of the first season, never bothered with the series after that.
The insertion of the gay history and former lover for Spacey's character in the ep where he goes back to his college was one of the earliest examples of woke I detected in TV shows.
I remember the very small period back in the early 2010s when people, even anons here thought Netflix to be the new HBO, heralding a new golden era of quality TV shows because of this series, Orange is the New Black, and them reviving Arrested Development.
I thought so too at one point, it’s a damn shame because it really could have been if they’d kept their originals focused on quality over quantity.
Netflix started off great with their shows and original movies but they really went off the rails in the late 2010’s, now I barely use it anymore.
Is that a PS Vita?