Ok, that’s it. I’m moving to California. Earthquakes be damned.
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Yup, I love Robin and I think her character being in power now opens up a lot of interesting avenues. I also think the real-life sexual predator buried by his on-screen extremely competent and powerful female accomplice right at this moment in our real-life history could end up being a kind of fun celebration of some…
Interesting - Frank clearly drove the show in the first couple of seasons, but in the last couple I was far more interested in what Claire was going to do, to the point that I was annoyed when they focused on Frank at all.
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I think she’s speaking her truth. I think it brings up a valid purpose of sex work and a service they can provide. There were even talks of visits to sex workers being possibly covered by some European health plans for disabled and such (not sure how that panned out). I’ve never felt sex work should be disparaged so…
Plus seeing sex workers would also be considered cheating on her husband, which I’m sure is something else she may not be proud of even if the relationship was falling apart.
Yeah, I understand people not liking the narrative, but it is *her* narrative. Whether she’s required to include various qualifiers about other peoples’ experiences with sex workers, or about sex workers themselves...I dunno. I don’t think she is, personally.
I don’t know if calling her time with sex workers a “dark time” that she doesn’t do anymore - I don’t know if that description disparages sex work necessarily. Saying you were having a dark time and seeing a therapist doesn’t disparage therapy work. Sexual healing is still healing. If people want to see a sex worker…
Might be a bit too on the nose right now, but we’ll see, I guess.
Double-spoiler alert: In the original books which the UK version is based off of, Francis realizes he’s going to lose his re-election campaign due to a popular opposition wave that itself has some extreme elements in it. He therefore makes a (pseudo-impromptu) very public appearance (Trafalgar Square, IIRC), knowing…
Spoiler alert (23 years later): at the end of The Final Cut, the finale of the UK “House of Cards” trilogy, his wife “Elizabeth” (now Claire) has Francis killed. I don’t know what they’re planning here, but if Claire has had him assassinated, that would be faithful to the source material.
Please oh pleaaaaase. I’ll bring my own place setting so you don’t have to wash up. You want cranberry sauce? I can bring cranberry sauce. Tequila and lime cranberry sauce. I’ll even make the turkey.
Do you think your Dad would be open to adopting me? I don’t need money or anything, I just want to come over for Thanksgiving and hear Ruthie stories.
Not Kiki?!?
My father was a go-getter at James Madison High in the late 1940s with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's true! To this day, when she comes up in conversation he refers to her as Ruthie.
WAIT. the age of consent question is really secondary here. he says she assaulted him. the hedging on this site of “oh, well, in some states the age of consent is 17" is absolute bullshit. he says she raped him. even if the age of consent WAS 17 in CA, raping someone is still illegal.
her using anthony in all this feels so so so icky. i really hope this “agreement” wasn’t orchestrated by him, because i love him and i want to believe he was better than that.
I don’t know....those text messages sent to Rain Dove where she admitted she had sex with him. The fact that she tried to justify it because she was in a relationship at 17 with a 33 year old. The fact that she’s now pinning the payout on the dead guy who can’t really defend himself. The fact that she’s using the same…
what the Washington Post calls the “liberal insurgency”