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And for a while I found myself frustrated by how much the third season focused on their relationship rather than some outside intrigue. But by the end, with that terrifying showdown in the Oval Office, I think the collapse of their marriage provided almost enough dramatic oomph to sustain the season. The question now is whether the fourth season will be about them coming back together or trying to destroy each other.
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Review: 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 5 'Chapter 31' Introduces Two New Faces & One Old One - IndieWire
Review: 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 5 'Chapter 31' Introduces Two New Faces & One Old One.
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But mostly this season felt off-balance, owing to problems of Frank’s position and some storylines that never really led anywhere fruitful. There were stories throughout the season, ones featuring good actors doing good work, that felt curiously unnecessary, even detrimental. And I just don’t think this season got to the “wow” moments that made Seasons 1 and 2 sing, that thrilling “A-ha! ” when you see the full, interconnected scope of what the writers have been weaving all along. Season 3 was lacking a trick, a nifty bit of design that could give it some real pizzazz.
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A drama about a ruthless congressman and his equally ambitious wife who navigate the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. County administrator Oren Chase (Murphy Guyer), a Republican rival of Frank's who wants his congressional seat, urges the girl's parents to file a lawsuit against him. Don't read this post unless you've seen all of House of Cards, and I mean all 13 episodes. Don't flirt with danger if you've seen eight and think you can just scroll halfway through the post.
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Many of us are by now finished with the third season of House of Cards, Netflix’s thoroughly addictive political drama/thriller series that arrived online last Friday. Now that a lot of us are done, let’s have a chat about what we just watched. Early reviews even criticized the lack of twists that were presented in seasons one and two and felt that the characters of Francis and Claire deserved more to act on in terms of plot. In their ruthless rise to power, Frank and Claire battle threats past and present, and form new alliances while old ones succumb to betrayal. The third season of the American television drama series House of Cards was commissioned on February 4, 2014.
In order to take Oren down, he finds out that the responsibility for guardrails is the county's—but none have been built. Along with the mayor, Frank visits Oren and confronts him with that responsibility. He also tells Oren that the planned power lines that the mayor has blocked, because they would fall on Oren's property, can go up this year if he claims it as eminent domain. In South Carolina, Frank continues negotiating the education bill via conference call. After a brief phone conversation with Claire, he corresponds with Zoe via text and she sends him mildly flirty messages. The next morning, Underwood speaks to the congregation of his hometown church and gives a passionate old-school sermon around the "idea of hate".
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When he turned that van around to get Rachel, a scene that was masterfully shot and staged, I was shocked. I know that sounds terrible, and in an ideal world Rachel, excuse me, Cassie, would have walked off into the New Mexico sunset unharmed. But this isn’t an ideal world, it’s the soapy moral morass that is House of Cards, and in that morass it was strangely nice to see Doug and the show back to their old ruthlessness.
And then, possibly, we watch 28 years of marriage implode in just a few minutes. There are no TV airings over the next 14 days. Add it to your Watchlist to receive updates and availability notifications. But now Frank and Claire become even greater adversaries as their marriage stumbles and their ambitions are at odds.
Does the president really deal with that few people? Sure he had his cabinet meetings, but mostly he was only interacting with a very small handful of people. He seemed to only have one or two Secret Service guys, even.
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It’s possible that Frank’s murky, fluid sexuality is just an illustrative detail of his bigger, complicated self and will stay mostly unexplored. Though, why keep bringing this thing up if it’s not headed somewhere? I don’t think anything is going to be left unknown in the Pine Barrens when this show ends. This is a show that answers most of its questions, so I think we haven’t heard the last, and may be about to hear a lot more, about Frank’s sexuality. The central narrative this season was, instead of some murder-y plot, the tension in Frank and Claire’s relationship.
I suspect it will be the former, but boy do I hope it’s the latter. Now that Remy has quit, seemingly for good, and Jackie Sharp is no longer in his corner, and Claire of all people has walked out, Frank needs some new blood. Either he gives Meechum a sexy promotion and they take over the world with Doug’s help, or he assembles a new team. I don’t like that shifty Seth Grayson, and I don’t feel that the show ever quite figured out what to do with him. He could be excused and no one would miss him. But even if he stays put, Frank is still curiously understaffed.
There are plenty of other dramas about marriage and domestic strife on TV. So I wish House of Cards would leave all that alone for the most part and get back to all the twisty, turn-y stuff. While I originally thought that it’d be best if House of Cards was only a three-season series, I now find myself eagerly awaiting the fourth. Not because Season 3 left things in such great shape, but because I think it could be glorious to watch the show finds its way again.
When we interviewed Michael Kelly this summer, he gave no indication that he’d be back, that Doug would survive taking a big rock to the head. But survive he did, and I think he had probably the most interesting arc of anyone this season. Normally I don’t like that whole grim-relapse kind of plot, but I think House of Cards took it in some interesting, unexpected directions.
Claire and Michael switch gears for a bit, digging into marriage. I’m sort of amazed that Michael would be so bold with the First Lady of the United States (and I am quite skeptical that he would know, just by looking at her for the past few hours, that she and Frank aren’t having sex). Claire, who has been married more than half her life, repeats her go-to line, that “I love Francis, now more than ever.” But Michael doesn’t believe her. He’s cheated on his husband and wishes they could split up, but the face of the fight for marriage equality can’t exactly run out and get a divorce. “Bad for business,” he says, just like it would be for Claire. It’s interesting that Claire doesn’t refute Michael’s allegation that she and Frank aren’t sleeping together; maybe she thinks it doesn’t merit a response.
In Russia, Claire goes to see Corrigan, showing him the statement he must read to be released by Petrov. It amounts, basically, to an apology, a retraction of his beliefs. And Claire hunkers down to convince him, saying she won't leave until they've figured something out. Tragically, the solution Corrigan settles on is hanging himself. At a joint press conference the next day, with Frank and Petrov on either side of her, Claire goes rogue, denouncing Petrov's treatment of Corrigan and hailing Corrigan as a hero. Petrov's face seems to indicate that we're on the brink of a cold war that'll make the 80s one look balmy.
Frank and Claire have their worst flight ever on the plane ride home. "I never should have made you president," she says. Stateside, Gavin tracks down Lisa, Rachel's old wet-haired sweetheart of a girlfriend, an overly trusting collie if there ever was one. "Chapter 3" is the third episode of the first season of the American political thriller drama series House of Cards.
This post is for people who have seen all of House of Cards, season 3—in other words, all of House of Cards to date, down to the credits. Season three introduces intriguing new political and personal elements to Frank Underwood's character, even if it feels like more of the same for some. The season was recognized with numerous award nominations. Discussions get heated with Underwood asking them if they want him to resign. He ends up on good terms with them, announcing a Furman University scholarship in their daughter's honor.
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