House of Cards (2013) - Mini Series
The evil plans are executed with great precision till Underwood is finally short listed for the post of Vice President. Here, he is in for a shock, as the President himself had things up his sleeves.
Yeah, sure! We have seen many movies/ TV series like this with plots where everyone has nothing but evil on their mind. Everybody now that everybody is manipulative in the politics, immaterial which part of the world one is. Power corrupts, absolute or otherwise, period. What makes this mini series different is the witty incisively razor sharp sarcastic dialogue. On top of Senator Frank Underwood soliloquies and discussed his modus operandi with us, the audience. He is so full of himself. When he bows to pray, he actually prays to himself!
A wide eye opener to illustrate how human beings would go to play with peoples' emotions and money to move their own agenda....
Meet Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), the Democrat Majority Whip in the White House. He is the Invisible Hand that puts everything in order like how he wants to put it, for his benefit.
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He gets very angry when he is bypassed for the position of Secretary of State, a post he was promised before the elections. He does not exhibit his frustration but like what a true psychopath would do, he put up a straight face but whilst sharpening his sharp steely knives. He is not going to take these setbacks lying down.
Also meet his personal secretary, his confidant, his faithful dog, Doug Stomper, who probably knows all secrets about Underwood, more than his mother and his wife put together. And meet his wife, Claire, a nearing menopause go-getter, who is equally privy to all the schemes that Underwood is up to. Claire has a non profit initiative to supply fresh drinking water to the third world for which she uses Underwood's influence in the White House to garner donations.
Underwood has many dirty secrets of each and every congressman and he knows how to use it in his favour when the time demands. He is conniving and paints the picture as if he is genuinely helping them when he could be stabbing them at the very same moment.
He starts an affair with an ambitious novice journalist, Zoey, just to feed her the right information to 'leak' out of the White House.
Underwood's mantle is proven by his handling of the Education Bill which he 'helped' to contain its repercussion - even though he created the hype in the first place- to come out smelling of roses.
Then he blackmails a congressman, Peter Russo, with drinking, drugs and women problems, to withdraw a Bill. With his own agenda on mind, he grooms Russo for the post of Governor of Pennsylvania with the right kind of news coverage and political wrangling.
Unfortunately, Russo flaunters and go wayward into his old ways and he was eliminated in what appeared like a suicide.
In the meantime, Claire has to deal with her own issues at her non profit organization where she stream rolls others, even the founder, for dominance and rekindles an old relationship with an old flame who is a great contributor to her course.
Underwood has many dirty secrets of each and every congressman and he knows how to use it in his favour when the time demands. He is conniving and paints the picture as if he is genuinely helping them when he could be stabbing them at the very same moment.
He starts an affair with an ambitious novice journalist, Zoey, just to feed her the right information to 'leak' out of the White House.
Underwood's mantle is proven by his handling of the Education Bill which he 'helped' to contain its repercussion - even though he created the hype in the first place- to come out smelling of roses.
Then he blackmails a congressman, Peter Russo, with drinking, drugs and women problems, to withdraw a Bill. With his own agenda on mind, he grooms Russo for the post of Governor of Pennsylvania with the right kind of news coverage and political wrangling.
Unfortunately, Russo flaunters and go wayward into his old ways and he was eliminated in what appeared like a suicide.
In the meantime, Claire has to deal with her own issues at her non profit organization where she stream rolls others, even the founder, for dominance and rekindles an old relationship with an old flame who is a great contributor to her course.
The evil plans are executed with great precision till Underwood is finally short listed for the post of Vice President. Here, he is in for a shock, as the President himself had things up his sleeves.Yeah, sure! We have seen many movies/ TV series like this with plots where everyone has nothing but evil on their mind. Everybody now that everybody is manipulative in the politics, immaterial which part of the world one is. Power corrupts, absolute or otherwise, period. What makes this mini series different is the witty incisively razor sharp sarcastic dialogue. On top of Senator Frank Underwood soliloquies and discussed his modus operandi with us, the audience. He is so full of himself. When he bows to pray, he actually prays to himself!
A wide eye opener to illustrate how human beings would go to play with peoples' emotions and money to move their own agenda....
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