I didn't hate this season as much as some people, but I definitely didn't burn through it at the speed I did for seasons 1 and 2. I'm guessing its only a matter of time before some guy is full on blowing Frank in the Oval Office.
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chaos
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Really, I don't see where they can go from here. There is no solution if she leaves him, his campaign is done. Unless he fucking kills Dunbar, it is done. And a season of him sitting in Gaffney feeling sorry for himself or banging his bros in the mountains doesn't sound too appealing. Or he could kill Claire before she can announce.
Khane
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I think you just spoiled season 4 bro. Stamper gonna try to kill Claire, she's gonna be ready for it, there is a struggle, fight and chase, Frank tries to step in. Either Frank dies or Claire dies..... at the hands of Meachum
Araxen
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He had single digit approval ratings and now he's the frontrunner. They'll come up with some stupid unbelievable bullshit.
Bondurant
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Yeah like America Works which didn't make sense at all. Also he did lame diplomatic stuff like putting his wife in UN, inviting Pussy Riot to some state dinner and going full retard with NATO politics. I mean we had some far fetched stuff during the first seasons, but s3 overall felt like some low quality vaudeville where it's all about setting up forced drama between characters. Claire going full social justice with the russian guy was so lame, so badly written it looked like some random tumbler shit.
Bondurant
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Yeah, some hardcore democrat going full "you're not entitled to anything" is just lazy writing.
Gilgamel
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I honestly thought a good angle would be(and I thought it was coming) him running as an independent and somehow making his program work and winning. He would never, ever be able to stay a democrat with those political positions, and he's not really a democrat anyway, he just wants power. Instead he somehow wins the nomination anyway.
TJT
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Yeah this had me scratching my head. I had to look it up. I thought, wait, Frank was the Democratic Whip Leader right? Oh yeah he was... dismantling Social Security and Medicare would be outright political suicide for JUST bringing it up for him. When Dunbar was attacking him for his "Conservative Agenda" I was just confused. Yeah, somewhat interesting politics this season... but the stakes didn't seem as pressing or as interesting. Even though they were objectively higher.
opiate82
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I didn't think this season was awful, but it fell short of season one or two. I mean, here is the synopsis for S01E01:
Compared to where we are now:
The direction of the show just changed so much this season and the stakes couldn't be any lower. The (political) culmination of the season is the Iowa caucus, really? I was expecting some sort of Cuban Missle Crisis v2.0 with them trying to hamfist Putin into this season at the very least. Plus Frank didn't murder anyone. Disappointed.
Khane
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The biggest problem for me was the ham-fisting of scenarios from our current political climate in ways that make no sense. For instance, AmWorks for all the reasons everyone here has pointed out already.
Stop trying to shove such ridiculous political talking points down my throat. They gonna let Aaron Sorkin write next season? Can't wait for Coldplay to start playing in the background for the entire last 10 minutes of every episode while Frank shoves platitudes down my throat.
Stop trying to shove such ridiculous political talking points down my throat. They gonna let Aaron Sorkin write next season? Can't wait for Coldplay to start playing in the background for the entire last 10 minutes of every episode while Frank shoves platitudes down my throat.
I honestly believed for a while that they were setting up for Frank to switch sides of the isle, and I bet they were going down that road and decided to abandon it for some reason.
Consider: Frank specifically said "I will not run on the democratic ticket in the next election" he emphasized democratic.
AmWorks: as said above, this is democratic suicide, but it fits perfectly if he was going to roll it out, get it passed, then run as republican in the next election.
There were other hints as well in the first 3-4 episodes. I still believe that it may happen next season.
Consider: Frank specifically said "I will not run on the democratic ticket in the next election" he emphasized democratic.
AmWorks: as said above, this is democratic suicide, but it fits perfectly if he was going to roll it out, get it passed, then run as republican in the next election.
There were other hints as well in the first 3-4 episodes. I still believe that it may happen next season.
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Tarrant
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Oh, in an interview I watched earlier it said if she wasn't the main director she was still there helping and co directing. -shrug-
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Xeldar
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Meh suspension of disbelief got broke when the gay American commits suicide and Claire doesn't even wake up to a dude strangling to death. I can't be assed to finish this season, and based upon the reviews here and le reddit hivemind, I don't seem to be missing much.