The Ultimate Sin?
November 6, 2017 9:53 PM Subscribe
The end of House of Cards leaves me wondering if the show was any good to begin with.
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Throughout its run, "House of Cards" committed the ultimate sin: The series presented itself as a savvy look at the dark heart of national politics, when actually it was a wildly naive conspiracy story that only worked by making Frank Underwood's (Spacey) opponents too dumb to catch him.
Yea, that whole stupid/naive opponents thing annoyed me. Yet I liked watching right up to the end of Season 3 after which the show's rampant cynicism got to be too much for me. Some saw it as reflective of actual political life in Washington, others saw it as a melodramatically written farce. But what was it really reflecting?
The writer of this article posts
Throughout its run, "House of Cards" committed the ultimate sin: The series presented itself as a savvy look at the dark heart of national politics, when actually it was a wildly naive conspiracy story that only worked by making Frank Underwood's (Spacey) opponents too dumb to catch him.
Yea, that whole stupid/naive opponents thing annoyed me. Yet I liked watching right up to the end of Season 3 after which the show's rampant cynicism got to be too much for me. Some saw it as reflective of actual political life in Washington, others saw it as a melodramatically written farce. But what was it really reflecting?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this "here's my personal take on it" framing isn't how posts are made here. Also if you just want to talk about the show, you can check out Fanfare discussions of House of Cards. -- LobsterMitten
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