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I watched to the end of S2 but then the scuttlebutt on S3 was so poor I dropped it. Should I skim S3 or read a synopsis or something and start back at S4? Or was S3 good after all? Also add me under "2016 killed political fiction for me."
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So, again, I've watch S1 and S2 and Frank suddenly caring about money instead of power is a ridiculous contrivance. I mean, gently caress, season 2 is basically all about an adversary of Frank's (Tusk) who has loads of money and who Frank fucks over.
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Jun 2, 2017 20:27
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Niwrad posted:It's a show you have to binge over a weekend because the minute you stop and think about things you realize it's pretty bad. Scandal is the show that does this kind of political soap opera stuff right. HoC doesn't belong there and it's showing. At least I get to be perpetually correct in that the UK original is superior.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:08
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at the President putting the Secretary of State into a coma by shoving her down a couple stairs and the Vice President poisoning her lover during sex.
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DaveKap posted:It's 3 series, 4 1-hour episodes each. Condensed and good. It's really good and even though by the third series it was flagging a bit it had a good ending too.
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Jun 10, 2017 09:03
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King of Foolians posted:One thing I think is also missing in the American version that the BBC did well was seeing how murdering Mattie (the BBC's Zoe-Charcter) messed with Francis mentally. Frank has pretty much zero remorse or guilt for her death and at this point adding it in would feel like it's shoehorned in. I thought they were going to start going in that direction when Frank was in the hospital after getting shot but nope. I don't know. (UK version) Urquhart ruled with an iron fist for something crazy like twelve years (his life ambition was to rule longer than Thatcher), he removed a King and replaced him with a puppet child, and he died a martyr/hero to an assassin's bullet. He's the defining man of British post-war history, the greatest Briton since Churchill. I'd say Urquhart got almost everything he wanted.
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