{"id":8901,"date":"2014-02-19T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2014-02-19T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:13:39","slug":"house-of-cards-restless-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2014\/02\/house-of-cards-restless-hearts.html","title":{"rendered":"House of Cards’ Restless Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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As required of all D.C. residents, my friends and I blitzed through\u00a0House of Cards\u00a0<\/em>this weekend. \u00a0(As you can see above, I thought sweet, wholesome chocolate chip cookies<\/a> would be a nice counterpoint to the bitterly cynical show). \u00a0Unfortunately, though I like politics, sneaky ploys, and villainous monologues, I\u2019m still not a big fan of the show, and you can read why over at\u00a0<\/a>First Things<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>(I was careful to keep my review thematic, so, I think you\u2019re safe, even if you\u2019re worried about spoilers).<\/p>\n

The second season of Netflix\u2019s\u00a0House of Cards<\/em>\u00a0introduces a new aide for Vice President Frank Underwood, who seems to have a puppyish enthusiasm for intrigue. Seth Grayson, trying to prove his sneaky bona fides, applies for a job as press secretary by digging up damaging information on the Underwoods and goes on to have the kind of stealthy park bench meetings in which envelopes stuffed with money are exchanged.<\/p>\n

Someone so clearly desirous of a trenchcoat and a fedora could usually be written off as campy, but here, the aide is rewarded by a show that seems to have read too much of its own press and is enamored of its own evil\u2026<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the characters in\u00a0House of Cards<\/em>\u00a0are like people who want to be seen as ambitious, but have never been told that ambitious people are advancing toward a\u00a0goal<\/em>. Zoe Barnes, a sometimes ally, sometimes antagonist, sometimes partner in adultery with Underwood, is ostensibly an ambitious reporter, but she does almost no reporting and turns down a prestigious job to continue on as Underwood\u2019s mouthpiece.<\/p>\n

By the time one of the characters, who is ostensibly a bird lover, has wrung the neck of one of his pets for interrupting him on a phone call, it\u2019s obvious that, although the characters are torn over which is preferable, money or power, they have no idea what to do with either. These characters are never at rest.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at\u00a0<\/em>First Things\u2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are any commenters out there watching and does your assessment differ? \u00a0I\u2019m still glad, on net, to have seen the season, but that\u2019s because in D.C. the show is as pervasive as\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em> was in high school, and I want to be able to keep up with the\u00a0lingua franca<\/em>. \u00a0I\u2019ve already had one interesting conversation about whether [late in the season spoilers] Senax naq Pynver univat n guerrfbzr jvgu gurve obqlthneq ercerfragf nal zrnavatshy fuvsg va gurve eryngvbafuvc sebz gurve cevingr nssnvef. \u00a0V fnvq ab..<\/p>\n

But I plan to satisfy the hunger that\u00a0House of Cards<\/em> is meant to sate with the Folger\u2019s production of\u00a0Richard III<\/em><\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

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