Now, usually, my mother would call his mother and she'd come and fetch him. The Wrysons had way more money than we did, but run away he would, at least once a month and come straight to our place. He used to run away from home all the time and come to our house. Chapter 41 Frank Underwood: You know, there was a boy that lived down the street from me in Gaffney, about my age. LeAnn Harvey: Yes, I recognize his voice.Įlizabeth Hale: You're stronger than he is. Doug Stamper: You're speaking to the president. LeAnn Harvey: I don't respond to threats. Elizabeth Hale: Not even being president could give you any class. I just happen to be white trash that lives in the White House. But you're right, I am still white trash. Frank Underwood: Well, it was a peach farm. Elizabeth Hale: Reduced to tabloid gossip? She might as well be living in that trailer park you come from. The notion that the hug at the episode represents a reforged mother/daughter alliance is one that should scare Frank as much as the Armenian Power gang scared Lucas’s former cellmate.Chapter 40 Frank Underwood: Claire is the First Lady of the United States, and you still think she made the wrong choice. We now know, at least, where Claire gets her chilly demeanor from. Burstyn in particular seems like a potentially important new player, with barely veiled fascination in her daughter’s political life and completely unveiled contempt for Frank. And the two new senior citizens on screen, Cicely Tyson as Congresswoman Doris Jones and Burstyn as Claire’s mother, are a thrill: weary from all they’ve been through, but both maintaining strong convictions. Neve Campbell’s consultant Leann Harvey has a faint Texas lilt that’s as subtly menacing as the little gun in her desk. There have been times in past seasons when the show seemed stuck in cul-de-sac, but for now the dynamic of Claire as an insurgent and Frank as a seething spurned husband (instead of folksy asides, we get a murder dream) has created an interesting, novel dynamic.Īlso promising are the new cast members. But we’ve never seen them employed by one Underwood against another for as sustained a period and with as high stakes as these. We’ve seen these moves and countermoves before: intimidation threats from the president slick but brutal interception from Stamper quid-pro-quo-or-maybe-just-extortion overtures from Claire, delivered with a slight smile.
The episode finally revved up the real entertainment engine of House of Cards halfway through when Claire and Frank and their operatives got down to the business of dealmaking. She’s a locked box, both to the people within the show and the people watching it. While Frank cornily diaried into the camera in seasons past, Claire has maintained an icy, put-together exterior whether on the campaign trail or having late-night pillow talk with her husband. This episode’s early scenes of her creeping through David Fincher’s very favorite kind of setting-a drafty mansion-with unknown purpose (other than to avoid Ellen Burstyn) provided a reminder that Claire’s deeper motivations and thoughts have always been removed from the viewer. Like the one from Claire, gone rogue after one too many insults and sidelining of her ambitions last season. The president, of course, has more immediate threats to face. Might the season end with Frank in a jail cell? Throughout the series, Underwood has had not one but many Swords of Damocles over his head last season ended with the elimination of one in the form of onetime prostitute Rachel Posner, but Lucas’s reappearance and his escape into the Witness Protection Program may be a set-up for some nice symmetry. He was last seen in Season 2, when he was arrested for cybercrimes on the way to exposing the mortal crimes of Frank Underwood. The guy dictating erotica to his bunkmate is Lucas Goodwin, the hapless investigative journalist and boyfriend of the late Zoe Barnes.
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House of Cards Season 4: rebooted in Oz-land? Less-than-obsessive viewers, or even obsessive ones who’ve had to clear their memory banks as they’ve gorged on other complicated TV universes in the past two years, could be forgiven for some confusion at the opening scene of this season opener. As in previous years, I’m binge-reviewing the latest season of Netflix’s House of Cards, the TV show that helped popularize the idea of “binge watching” when it premiered in 2013.
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