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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
Solid season. Liked the last line. So true as to what the US does.
They just couldn't have done Claire vs Frank for the whole season. Once it came out to the public, it would've been the end for both of them.
I didn't like how easily Durant bowed out. They played her and once she figured it out she was on her way to some sweet payback. Too bad they didn't play that out to it's potential. She could've gone to Conway with that threat and made them stronger.
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She went to Conway, which was what the delegate change was all about. Conway promised to keep her on as Secretary of State if he won and it would've been difficult for Underwood to remove her from that position if he won. Hedging her bets cost her though.
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Doug is my favorite character, he'll be doing some more immoral nasty things next year. Ruthless with bit of a soft side.
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Doug is terrifying. Ruthless with unchecked obsession/addiction issues. Serial Killer tendencies.
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Originally Posted by Machiavelli
GREAT season
I agree that the Neve Campbell appearance was at first jarring; she does bear some resemblance to Mara.
Really liked Claire's rise to power, be it perhaps a little unbelievable/quick. But hey, it's TV. What I didn't like was her cheesy relationship with Tom.
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I liked her relationship with Tom. What these season really illustrated for the viewer was that Claire and Frank are two sides of the same coin. Even when they are actively sabotaging each other they are paying homage to the public figure narrative they both share. While attempting to deal critical blows to the other they both back off from dealing fatal blows. That's probably my favourite part of the show is how their relationship is two individuals in pursuit of the exact same things. We should all be so lucky to be in lock-step with our partners. Claire's relationship with Tom mirrored Frank's relationship with him in Season 3. Just like the threesome with Meechum, it's another deliberate illustration of how Claire and Frank have the same desires and goals. The final scene with them side by side, two sides of the same coin.
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Rolled my eyes when the terrorist leader started going off script and they had no idea what he was saying. There's no way that would have gone down without an Arabic translator present.
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Yeah, this took me out of the whole sequence. Brutal.
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I know they've done terrible things, but I'm going to be sad when the Underwoods are eventually dethroned. There's no way all that bad juju escapes them.
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I think they will walk away undefeated. That would be the most Underwood thing they could do with the series; illustrate the weakness of history being written by the victors.
The whole show is a tale of 3 realities, the image presented to the public, the image presented to your political peers, and the image presented to yourself.
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
I think Freddie started hating Frank in season 2.
If I am not mistaken he lost his restaurant franchise deal when his relationship with Frank came to light. Frank also asked him to downplay their friendship when Freddie's son was caught threatening a photographer with a gun while on parole.
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With the help or Remy Danton, Raymond Tusk exposed Freddy's gangbangin' past and the smear articles that appeared about Freddy cost him his franchise restaurant and sauce business.
Frank was forced to distance himself from Freddy which Freddy felt slighted by. Frank's offer of charity was salt in the wound to the betrayal of distancing himself.
Freddy has to take Frank's offer of employment at the White House because it includes benefits for him and his grandson. Presumably his son was sent back to prison for violating his parole and Freddy is now looking after his grandson.
However, he resents working there because he's forced to pretend to be friends with Frank who previously slighted him, and seeing him daily at the white house is a reminder of the charity in the form of a job that Freddy was forced to take.
As soon as he has an opportunity he wants to move on from the White House and gets the opportunity to tell Frank what he thinks of him after Frank once again oversteps his boundaries.
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Joe beating the crap out of Hammerschmidt (sp?) was a highlight.
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Inspite of humbling himself for the sake of his grandson and taking the job at the white house, Freddy has pride. Freddy may have changed but he's still the same guy that was the thug back in his youth, and his street code of loyalty which was the source of his feelings of betrayal by Frank is also the source of his violence towards Tom. Even though he hates Frank, Freddy has too much self respect to snitch.
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Originally Posted by Meelapo
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They were using and Executive Order to the NSA to spy on people's browsing habits to track their interests which they then used to pinpoint campaign literature, speech content etc at to sway them.
The guy that Claire's campaign manager bring in to do that runs a company that is awarded the NSA contract to do data analysis to determine these trends.
