Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 23:44     Subject: Re:House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote: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.



Agreed. Though I couldn't get through the last season - I found that it had lost a lot of its zing without Frank.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 23:44     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.)



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?


+1
These aren't supposed to be likeable people. The point of the show is their machinations to get what they want.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 16:16     Subject: Re:House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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.

Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 14:57     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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
Post 05/31/2019 09:11     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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
Post 05/31/2019 06:25     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.)



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?


Maybe the whole despising thing goes down better when it is a hugely funny comedy like Veep. The more outrageous, the more hilarious.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 05:43     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.)



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?


+1
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 00:19     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Meh. Watch the original British House of Cards. Much better writing and skilled actors.
Anonymous
Post 05/31/2019 00:12     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote: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.)



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
Post 05/30/2019 23:45     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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
Post 05/30/2019 23:35     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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
Post 05/30/2019 23:22     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
If at all possible, they get even more unlikeable
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2019 23:12     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
Anonymous wrote: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


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
Post 05/30/2019 23:04     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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
Post 05/30/2019 22:52     Subject: House of Cards - hate Frank Underwood
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.)