Meanwhile, even the most charitable reading of the Trump presidency thus far involves a good number of public, unforced errors as well as torrential scrutiny attending every dubious assertion from the White House. This season involves the greatest conspiracy yet, with the Secretary of State and various law-enforcement officials smoothly selling outrageous lies (the convenience-store explosion, the Masterson cover-up). Its vision of politics is one of competence, in which everyone from junior staffers to presidents have veneers of poise that hide modern Machiavellis. And Trump’s darker tone with regards to the menace of terrorism fits with what’s going on in this season.īut in perhaps more significant ways, Cards has never felt farther from reality (and that’s saying something for one of the most nitpicked-over shows to ever air). Indeed, the creators have lucked out-if it can be called that-with Trump having proposed an immigration ban much as Frank Underwood has. Is it even more creepy given recent headlines? The Donald Trump era obviously places Cards in a new context, and the fact that this presidency feels more ominous to many than Obama’s did should be, one imagines, a boon to the show. That they’re willing to pull the metaphorical trigger is apparent in the ruse about Joshua Masterson, which culminated in a fantastically David Fincherian scene of Frank sneering at a young troubled American through a glass pane and then ordering his death.Ī creepy episode in its own right, then. Meanwhile, Frank and Claire can see their constituents quite well, and their gaze is also a weapon. The American people are trying to scrutinize the first couple but can’t actually see them. The choice of optical device was exactly the kind of dark (if on-the-nose) detail that this show excels at using. I loved the scene of Claire and Frank peering through a rifle scope at the crowd outside of the White House. From elaborate hoaxes to serious policy change to the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen, it’s clear there is no length the Underwoods won’t go to in the name of safety-that is, their own safety. ICO, the Cards-world ISIS, has become a strawman-strawbogeyman-for Frank and Claire to distract the nation with as Republicans try to pummel them on Hammerschmidt’s exposé about corruption. The age-of-terror Wag the Dog machinations that then unfolded had an especially gothic edge. In any case, Claire’s chilling address to the nation and Frank’s fiery interruption of Congress made for a sensational start to the episode.
‘I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks’ Crystal Wilkinson But the thought of her getting a chance to make meta-monologues raises the question of how the show could refresh its formula five years in-rather than merely continue to chart new depths of evil for the Underwoods, as this hour ended up doing. Alas, she was just filming a paranoia-promoting campaign ad masquerading as a PSA. Yes, Claire, it is-terrifying and intriguing. “I’ve been meaning to talk with you,” she says in the very first seconds of this premiere. It also, for a moment, seemed to bring a new gimmick of Claire addressing the camera just as her husband does. Season Five of House of Cards brings a new team of showrunners and a new real-life president for Frank Underwood to be compared to.
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As in previous years, I’m binge-reviewing the latest season of Netflix’s House of Cards, the TV show that helped popularize the idea of “binge watching” when it premiered in 2013.
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