House of Cards

[Honeybee]

Anyone watching the just uploaded in its entirety Netflix series?

I've watched one episode, and it's damn good. Kevin Spacey gives good sociopath.

[Honeybee]

Well, I watched all the episodes. I started on Saturday and finished the last two tonight. It has some very good twists and turns toward the end, and certain characters start to make different choices than they have. But very good stuff, although at times silly.

[Honeybee]

I may be the only TDEr who Netflixed this whole thing - but I just found out that the Peachoid ( big plot point) is a real thing. I suppose it makes sense, given the show's budget that they wouldn't build something like that, but still.

[bluetiger]

I have driven past the Gaffney Peach at least a hundred times. Don't tell me it has finally been immortalized on television!

[Honeybee]

There's an entire episode centered around it, more specifically what it resembles that is not a peach! LOL

[bluetiger]

Yep, we all know what it looks like when viewed from the side without the giant leaf!

I will definitely have to check this show out.

[Honeybee]

It's a really worthwhile show, and it's a game changer since Netflix bypassed the whole network model of showing an episode week by week. Netflix uploaded all 13 at once, and some of us wound up watching them all in a few days. Of course, some of us consumed many tv shows that we discovered on DVD that way, either because we didn't watch them or didn't have premium cable when they aired (Hello, Deadwood, The Wire).

The show isn't realistic in the sense that it's portrayal of politics is not ideological driven. You never really know what Kevin Spacey's character thinks, just that he wants power. And I will say this: it does something hate and lots of tv news shows do it. It shows female journalists getting ahead by sleeping with sources. That does not happen, unless you count Andrea Mitchell with Alan Greenspan. It's a really, really sexist trope, since you rarely if ever see male journalists do that.

However, I seriously doubt it portrays lobbyists and congresspeople and legislative assistants and charity workers they way they are either.

Anyway, it is a fun show and I dare you not to hit next after each episode.