House of Cards: Season 3, Episode 2 “Chapter 28” (B+)
It’s not common on this show to see the Underwoods fail to get what they want. Claire really crashed and burned during her confirmation hearing, getting agitated after Mendoza was confrontational and pushed her to the point of seeming unreasonable and hot-tempered. Frank is also not keeping his nature hidden, swearing angrily at those around him and letting his contempt boil over. Learning that those in his party didn’t want him to run so far ahead of the next election was a blow, and leave it to Frank to be incredibly manipulative and announce almost immediately that he won’t seek reelection even though we know that he has a plan up his sleeve to be able to trick them into thinking they wanted him all along. He is slipping, however, particularly in his ability to convince people he’s paying attention to them, most notably with Dunbar, who he managed to completely ignore several times over the course of the episode. Jackie asking to be his vice-president is interesting, and I do think that she’s the closest ally he could have in terms of her cutthroat nature. Truth be told, seeing Frank squirm in his position of power, unable to exercise his every desire and see it come to fruition, is exactly where this show should have gone after Frank so easily ascended the rungs to hold his high office. Frank dispatching Seth to check in on Doug didn’t get past his former top advisor, and he’s spiraling very gradually out of control, unhappy with being sidelined when his counsel would actually prove very useful to the president.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
What I’m Watching: Eastbound and Down (Penultimate Episode)
Eastbound and Down: Season 4, Episode 7 “Chapter 28” (B)
It seems set in stone that, despite all the mistakes Kenny is going to make along the way, of which there are and will continue to be many, he’s going to have a happy ending. Showing up to go join Dustin and Cassie in caroling covered in blood was this episode’s silver lining, a positive act which triggered uncharacteristically kind gestures on his part for his family, Dustin’s, and Stevie’s. Having sex with random women and doing coke while preparing for his own show was a far cry from the Kenny we saw at the beginning of this season, and bringing in a whole parade of lawyers to intimidate April in their divorce proceedings was a cheap but literally expensive stunt. Planning his XXX-mas Sports Sesh show was a doomed plan from the start, and it didn’t take long for the remaining cohosts to quit. It’s surprising just how many people still care enough about Kenny to come try to talk him out of self-destructing his life, and it’s a rarer thing to see them unload on him, like Stevie finally did, calling him the Grinch. Maria showing up at Kenny’s door to ask him for help in locating a devastated Stevie was a good turning point, though I could have done without the very predictable but still difficult to watch shooting-off of Stevie’s chin implant. Let’s hope that Kenny can get his act together in the show’s series finale this weekend, and finally redeem himself after an eventful twenty-eight chapters.
It seems set in stone that, despite all the mistakes Kenny is going to make along the way, of which there are and will continue to be many, he’s going to have a happy ending. Showing up to go join Dustin and Cassie in caroling covered in blood was this episode’s silver lining, a positive act which triggered uncharacteristically kind gestures on his part for his family, Dustin’s, and Stevie’s. Having sex with random women and doing coke while preparing for his own show was a far cry from the Kenny we saw at the beginning of this season, and bringing in a whole parade of lawyers to intimidate April in their divorce proceedings was a cheap but literally expensive stunt. Planning his XXX-mas Sports Sesh show was a doomed plan from the start, and it didn’t take long for the remaining cohosts to quit. It’s surprising just how many people still care enough about Kenny to come try to talk him out of self-destructing his life, and it’s a rarer thing to see them unload on him, like Stevie finally did, calling him the Grinch. Maria showing up at Kenny’s door to ask him for help in locating a devastated Stevie was a good turning point, though I could have done without the very predictable but still difficult to watch shooting-off of Stevie’s chin implant. Let’s hope that Kenny can get his act together in the show’s series finale this weekend, and finally redeem himself after an eventful twenty-eight chapters.
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