That's close to how I felt about House of Cards. I could see why people liked it, but I thought it was only about 75% as clever as it thought it was.

Totally brilliant, right?

I'm going to start calling it the Gimple Shitstorm as well. Thanks for that.

I don't get it either. I thought it was mostly Gimple that's causing the issues. I was pretty OK with the show under Darabont and Mazarra. I think the moment Gimple came on board, things have pretty much been running downhill since then.

That is a perfect way of putting it. Absolutely perfect. I watch the show every week, and then end up hating myself for putting myself through the boredom and absurdity and melodrama. Do I think it's going to get better? What was that about fool me once? I half think that if they would just ditch Gimple, the show…