What frightened me most about the first two seasons of House of Cards (also, what was most realistic) was hearing "President Walker" over and over.

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This is a good point. Only Hoover and Taft had never held elected office before, and that was a very different time.

I think the beating was justified (I mean, justified by mafia standards, it might be a bit much for normal people). The curbstomping was excessive, but the guy definitely deserved a black eye.

I had to dig for House of Cards too when it dropped. Granted, I gave it one star so I can see why Netflix didn't push it on me.

herp derp! You tell it like it is iconoclast! No one else had the balls to speak truth to power! The scales fell from my eyes and now I no longer like this show.

Remember the car chase between Tony and Phil? The "Gotta meet John down by the restaurant" line preceding it totally makes it.

Phil getting offed in the gas station is probably the best whacking on the entire series. Great fucking scene.

Camp is sort of self-conscious though. You get the impression that HoC tries really hard to be super cereal, which makes it even more hilarious than if it were actually self-aware.

You just know the writers were thinking "OMG we're so EDGY! Spitting on JESUS!" It was painful to watch, because I could imagine the room full of self-satisfied writers who thought they had made some bold iconoclastic statement.

I love Michael Kelly, but the awful Rachel storyline this season makes me wish Doug had died.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova in particular is smoking.

The more detail they get into on foreign policy, the more comically bad the show becomes. At least the chinese concrete (or whatever the *fuck* was going on last season) was opaque enough that you never had to think too hard about it. The key for a show like this is to discuss the stuff that the writers obviously are…

Don Verrilli definitely gives off pointy headed liberal out of touch egghead insert stereotype vibes, but I can see Paul Clement successfully running for a Senate seat. I mean, he's been on the "right" side of a bunch of major Supreme Court cases, so the media apparatus would be behind him, he's not handsome but he's…

Yeah. I would be astounded if most non-lawyers or non-followers of politics could even name the current SG, or any past SG other than Justice Kagan. Much less know what it is the Solicitor General actually does.

I mean, people used to say the same thing about the Senate. Before Obama, the only sitting Senators ever elected President were Harding and Kennedy. Then again, Senate is I think much more high profile (depending on the Senator of course).

J.K. Simmons still terrifies me, no matter what role he's playing. And Dennis Duffy, beeper king.

I think Oz was pretty quickly eclipsed by The Sopranos as HBO's flagship prestige drama (I don't think HBO had any drama series before Oz) and was just an easier sell (I found the Sopranos even bleaker and more depressing than even the Wire, yet I didn't realize that for years and it was easier for me to watch and had…

Ha! I only mentioned them because watching all this Better Call Saul reminded me of Mr. Show and David Cross, and I've been passing out to Patton Oswalt. I'd actually love to see Oswalt's take on Spengler. Big Fan really impressed me. I can see Cross doing a good Stantz. But I may be focusing too much on the original…