I agree: "Whip-poor-will" is one of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote.

This is just heartbreaking.

Goddamn if this song isn't an instant Low classic.

Colin Jeavons' Stamper can steal a scene like no one on earth.

Campbell? Hansard?

I really hope someone someday makes 'Federal Education Reform by Upton Sinclair'.

Doesn't Ian Richardson do quite a bit of Macbeth quoting in the original House of Cards?

Am I misremembering, or does Kate Mara's character, in reply to the line, say "Well, just give me a hint"? That seems to miss the point a bit (not sure if on Mara's character's part or the writers'.)

I've never (being Irish) been more invested in a non-Irish rugby game as much as I was in that France-Italy game.

After thinking about it a bit more (possibly too much), here's why I think a US version of this show needed more than just substitutions of Underwood for Urquhart, Congress for Commons, Southern for toff, etc.

I've also been trying to figure out why the direct-to-camera stuff doesn't work as well in this version. I agree with everything you wrote, and would add just this. Spacey feels like he's addressing an audience; Richardson feels like he's addressing me.

Apropos of nothing, that line in the review about working in Jesus' carpentry shop—"every once in a while, somebody’s going to cross two bits of wood together, and things will get awkward"—is totally a slogan in search of a t-shirt.

Ira Glass: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Ira Glass: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Has anyone watched the deleted scenes they have up on Hulu from the first three seasons and specials? It's pretty much like getting four or five new episodes.

Has anyone watched the deleted scenes they have up on Hulu from the first three seasons and specials? It's pretty much like getting four or five new episodes.

Surely one of the most succinct character-establishing lines ever written.

Surely one of the most succinct character-establishing lines ever written.

It was "etiolated", I think. Fancy shit.

It was "etiolated", I think. Fancy shit.