House of Cards, Season 3

Redfive · Post by **Redfive** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:51 pm

This just dropped on Netflix today. We've only watched the first episode

Spoiler:

The closing monologue with the final shot of his b-day present was just awesome too.

I'd like to draw this out and make it last a little, but I'm pretty sure the wife and I will just binge watch it.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:53 am

I started episode one today planning to take a couple weeks to get through the season.

I'm almost halfway there...

lildrgn · Post by **lildrgn** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:20 pm

I started S1 last week and finished just in time for Friday. I'm 4 eps in to S2 now. So great!

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:44 pm

In my best George Takei voice after watching the 1st episode of season 2 "oh my..."

Kurth · Post by **Kurth** » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:31 pm

Just finished the first two episodes. Definitely a "did that just happen" moment.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:14 am

Just finished the whole thing last night. Great episodes on the whole and plenty of twists and turns beyond that one in the first episode. Now I just have the long wait until season 3.

Drazzil · Post by **Drazzil** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:49 pm

Man... First epsiode of season 2

The Evil Dead · Post by **The Evil Dead** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 5:59 pm

Yeah, that first episode was crazy. And amazing. Only a few more episodes to finish, then just a few more months until season 2 of Orange is the New Black

RydeCrash · Post by **RydeCrash** » Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:53 pm

I just finished Season Two; all I can say is Kevin Spacey is Masterfully Sinister!!

Ryde…

nasai · Post by **nasai** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:10 pm

Redfive wrote:This just dropped on Netflix today. We've only watched the first episode

Spoiler:
Had to go back and check the credits to see if George R.R. Martin wrote the episode.
The closing monologue with the final shot of his b-day present was just awesome too.

I'd like to draw this out and make it last a little, but I'm pretty sure the wife and I will just binge watch it.

I have only read this comment in this thread because last night I finally got to the first episode. I'm sure I'll get to the remainder by the end of March.

Spoiler:

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:47 pm

Just finished up the season. Well played, Francis...well played. slow clap

Felt bad early on in the season when he couldn't play on his Playstation any more but I guess he found other ways to let off steam...in a most surprising way later in the season...

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:18 pm

Yeah, that letting off steam moment sure as fuck caught me off guard!

Excellent season. But damnit, gotta wait another year now!

tru1cy · Post by **tru1cy** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:40 pm

Just finished this today

Btw, releasing all episodes at once is the best way to watch for me. Love that Netflix does this with House of Cards

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:01 am

tru1cy wrote:Just finished this today

Btw, releasing all episodes at once is the best way to watch for me. Love that Netflix does this with House of Cards

It's harder not to have things spoiled unless you rush watching them all. I've been avoiding this thread and other references to it as much as possible until I finished season 2 tonight. Not a surprise ending, but still entertaining.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:15 pm

I'm on episode 11 of season 2, and that's when it jumped the shark for me. I won't get into any details, but really? Like that's believable.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:22 pm

naednek wrote:I'm on episode 11 of season 2, and that's when it jumped the shark for me. I won't get into any details, but really? Like that's believable.

Are you referring to the ménage à trois or something else?

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:23 pm

Moliere wrote:
naednek wrote:I'm on episode 11 of season 2, and that's when it jumped the shark for me. I won't get into any details, but really? Like that's believable.
Are you referring to the ménage à trois or something else?

Had to look it up but it's the ménage à trois.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:33 pm

Moliere wrote:
naednek wrote:I'm on episode 11 of season 2, and that's when it jumped the shark for me. I won't get into any details, but really? Like that's believable.
Are you referring to the ménage à trois or something else?

yes

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:29 pm

As it's being called, the Meetchun threesome lol.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:47 pm

tjg_marantz wrote:As it's being called, the Meetchun threesome lol.

He puts the Service in Secret Service

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:16 am

naednek wrote:
Moliere wrote:
naednek wrote:I'm on episode 11 of season 2, and that's when it jumped the shark for me. I won't get into any details, but really? Like that's believable.
Are you referring to the ménage à trois or something else?
yes

Just finished this tonight. In regards to that (not sure if spoiler tags are warranted or not at this point, but just in case)

Spoiler:

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 12:26 am

Do you mean Meechum?

Sabassis · Post by **Sabassis** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 2:04 am

This is so good, i started watching the British version this is based off, also on netflix. Im on the final season, season 3, and ill just say the British version of Francis (last name like Urkit in this version) is truly more evil than Francis Underwood. FU!

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:32 am

pr0ner wrote:Do you mean Meechum?

I just followed tjg's lead. I should have known not to trust a Canadian when spelling in English....

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:14 pm

Minus 1 poutine for spelling.

tru1cy · Post by **tru1cy** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:56 pm

Sesame Street Parody

paulbaxter · Post by **paulbaxter** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:37 pm

tru1cy wrote:Sesame Street Parody

That was amazing.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:00 pm

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 8:57 pm

Speaking of House of Cards, we've just recently gotten into it and we're loving it so far. But I've encountered an issue playing S1Ep6 via my Chromecast. It's the only thing that's caused a problem so far, and I wonder if it's something to do with Netflix itself, or maybe the episode in particular. Can someone who has access to the Canadian version and has a Chromecast please check if they're able to play this particular episode?

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:58 pm

I spent the last 3 days binge watching Season 3. While the show remains entertaining all of the characters have become more unlikable. There's no one to root for and the finale held no surprises.

Spoiler:

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:42 pm

I'm just about done watching this season and I think liked watching Vladimir Putin...umm, Viktor Petrov just ham it up on screen. The actor is also the brother of Hannibal on NBC.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:35 am

We have enjoyed the ride. One more episode to go for the most recent season. Remembering the show is for entertainment, we usually comment on how great the writing is for the characters after each episode. The acting, marvelous. Two thumbs up!

Enjoyed the Sesame Street parody Tru1cy.

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:37 am

A show that was once darkly great has descended into prosaic moralism.

It’s the exact opposite: House of Cards is going softer than President Frank Underwood’s gut. The first two seasons were a palate-cleansing, tit-for-tat inversion of Aaron Sorkin’s cloyingly earnest West Wing, where even the bad guys tended to be good-hearted, if ideologically misguided. But in just three seasons of House of Cards we’ve gone from Underwood (Kevin Spacey) not thinking twice about shoving under a train the unethical journalist he was fucking to a world where he actually takes seriously the idea of a federally funded jobs program that will—finally! seriously! emphatically!—end unemployment as we know it. He actually seems to earnestly want to do something for people and not simply because it will give him more power. Hell, at one point, he echoes FDR talking about how the “country needs bold, persistent experimentation” to turn the economy around and approaches his “America Works” program as something other than the shovel-ready malarkey the old Frank would have gleefully exulted.

Even more disappointing is the devolution of First Lady Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) from a ruthless operator who puts Agrippina the Younger to shame into a latter-day Lady Macbeth filled with doubts about her and her husband’s patently unredeemable actions. “We’re murderers, Francis,” she says at one point in the new season—as if that’s a bad thing.

paulbaxter · Post by **paulbaxter** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:19 pm

So if the characters in a tv show shift from unrelentingly evil to somewhat less evil, that qualifies as a "descent." A strange world we live in these days.

Toe · Post by **Toe** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:42 pm

Just 3 episodes into season 3 and I agree with that article. Not enjoying this season nowhere near as much as the previous two. I couldn't really put my finger on it, but yes, I can see some of it has to do with what the article is talking about. Also, I should know better than to read this tread before I finished the whole season as already got spoiled a tiny bit.

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:33 pm

disappointing season. Finished it today. Nowhere as good as the first two.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:36 pm

Season 2 wasn't as good as the first two?

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:04 am

Isgrimnur wrote:Season 2 wasn't as good as the first two?

not my fault the thread hasn't been updated...

Redfive · Post by **Redfive** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:46 pm

naednek wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:Season 2 wasn't as good as the first two?
not my fault the thread hasn't been updated...

Didn't realize the thread was still in use. Fixed

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:03 am

I'm about to start episode 11 tonight. That alone shows that this season hasn't really struck a chord with me.

Petrov is no Tusk.