House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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Anonymous
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I've been on a House of Cards marathon this week and I'm watching it for the first time. I truly despise Frank and Claire Underwood. I'm halfway through Season 2.
Don't spoil me and give any details, just tell me one thing - do these two rats get what they richly deserve? Because seriously, screw these two. /endrant (Thanks everyone. It's nice to get this off my chest instead of yelling at the TV lol.) |
Anonymous
| I hated them so much too that I stopped watching. I HATED them. After one night I had an epiphany- why was I allowing myself to watch something that made me feel such negative things? I never watched again |
Anonymous
OP here. You may have a point. Why am I just pissing myself off watching this? If this next episode makes me yell at the TV again, I might just go find The West Wing. Now that was a show about an Administration that actually gave a damn about the country. |
Anonymous
| If at all possible, they get even more unlikeable |
Anonymous
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OP here - after just viewing Season 2, Episode 12, I can say I am done with this show. It's not that it's badly written - it's like a very, very talented and intelligent screenwriter decided to write a story about uniformly horrible people and make it look like these people are "playing the game" well.
It's a shame because the show is written so intelligently. I wish they had the vision for a better story. Oh well, now I will go watch The West Wing and be happy. |
Anonymous
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I hated them too, OP. I don’t think they’re “playing the game well,” however. Though I suppose that it’s easy to play at being “smart” when the writers make everyone else so ridiculously dumb.
West Wing and Veep are much better. |
Anonymous
You are supposed to despise them. That's the point. Do you think you are supposed to like every lead character in a TV show? |
Anonymous
| Meh. Watch the original British House of Cards. Much better writing and skilled actors. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Maybe the whole despising thing goes down better when it is a hugely funny comedy like Veep. The more outrageous, the more hilarious. |
Anonymous
| Claire is awesome. I knew right away that she was the worse of the two. Frank actually had some kind of emotion but Claire has none and is definitely the sociopath. |
Anonymous
| LOVE Claire. I loved Frank, too. The writing in the early years was impeccable. So satisfying to watch evil characters without tons of bloodletting. |
Anonymous
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I was addicted to House of Cards. Binged watched every season. The characters, plot, acting were mesmerizing. It reminded me somewhat of The Godfather....in the sense that one knows is watching amoral, sociopathic individuals getting away with murder.....yet somehow maintaining the loyalty of unsuspecting dupes (like Doug Stamper). The ending was for me, unsatisfying. It was a rushed rewrite since they had to fire Spacey before they started shooting the last season. I would have liked to have seen both Claire and Frank go out together in a blaze of glory, sort of like Bonnie and Clyde.
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Anonymous
+1 These aren't supposed to be likeable people. The point of the show is their machinations to get what they want. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Though I couldn't get through the last season - I found that it had lost a lot of its zing without Frank. |