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I’m tempted to call that tension sudden, but it wasn’t really, was it? The fundamental problems of their power dynamic were always there, it just took Frank’s ascendancy to the Oval Office to make them plain. Ambassador maybe seemed a bit abrupt this season, it makes sense that she would, with Frank finally ensconced in the White House, start wanting something more for herself. All the talk of her giving him his time and now wanting hers was, I’m assuming, a deliberate allusion to the Clintons, Hillary stepping forward as her husband retreated to the high-end lecture circuit. The trouble for Frank and Claire, of course, was that Frank’s rocky term in the White House was just getting started as Claire grew anxious to get her second act going. So they ruptured, the typically laser-focused duo now badly out of sync and clashing awkwardly.
Call Me Francis
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
He's then able to connect to the parishioners by making them equals, saying they've all done this before when feeling soul-crushing loss, and two among them are feeling that today. As part of your account, you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime. We finally see where that clip from the first trailer for this season comes from. Frank riffs on courage, how it takes more courage to hold your tongue than to kill yourself or to word-vomit on television. And Claire says, “We’re murderers, Francis.” “No, we’re not,” he says. He tries to take the usual Underwood tactic — “It happened, let’s move on” — but Claire presses him.
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".
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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