Frank, meanwhile, may still be off on a whole other wavelength. Claire told Michael he didn’t know the first thing about marriage, but in the end, she believed his interpretation more than her own. Their words had to cut deep because they came from someone so cherished, trusted and loved. Now they’ve got it all out in the open, and then some. He was upset over her rocky start as ambassador, as well as the less than smooth nomination process. She was repeatedly sickened by Frank’s lack of follow-through. “House of Cards” had been building its marital tension subtly through its first five episodes, with a few hints at disruption in the union but no outright declarations of war. Their back-and-forth in the jail cell was a high point for the season, and the the dialogue didn’t let down a moment so clearly elevated for this very occasion. Perhaps said writing staff was simply worn out from providing Claire such great conversations with Korrigan. Ready for Primetime: Everything else with Claire. Neither are to be forgotten, even if they could be during the episode. Still, the latter showed a sickeningly deceptive side to Gavin, as he lied to Lisa about having tested positive for AIDS, and the former appeared to indicated Doug’s sincerity for his new post. It would be easy to completely forget these comparatively tame details in an hour so filled with Drama (“with a capital D”). Binge and You’ll Miss It:Īlso in Episode 6: Doug helped out his new boss, Heather Dunbar, and “Max” (aka Gavin) gleaned a few new details from Lisa about her ex, Rachel, who he now thinks is in New Mexico. If it was meant to be threatening, then it’s all the worse. Frank’s asides have been leaning toward the relevant overall this season, but this one was forced, awkward and unfunny. Though I most certainly was held hostage by the mano y mano showdown, I wasn’t rightly prepped for a joke right after it ended. Breaking the Fourth WallĪfter the Underwoods finished trading barbs - “He was a coward, and I’m glad he’s dead.” “He had more courage than you’ll ever have.” “I should’ve never made you ambassador.” “I should’ve never made you President.” - Frank looked down, underneath his desk at the camera and said, “What are you lookin’ at?” directly to an audience presumably transfixed by the verbal battle. Fincher likely would not have been so callous with his camera. It worked like a charm, but it also made his breakdown in the clinic’s waiting room all the less potent. In a carefully choreographed scene, he first refused the educational brochures and then thought better of it, deciding to keep them and throw away the result in order to trick Lisa into thinking he was sick. This scene marked a slight overstep, but the big one came later, when Gavin was told he didn’t have any STDs. We knew what the note was from the previous scene, and Petrov’s remark - “Your wife values privacy” - was more than enough to explain to both the audience and Underwood what had happened. The first came when President Petrov was notified of Claire’s command to de-bug Kerrigan’s cell. There were a few interesting scenes of exposition that became slightly redundant when incorporating the visual aesthetic with the dialogue, and both took place after a character was handed a piece of information.
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