I honestly do not understand why the Underwoods have it so out for Leann. She's repeatedly demonstrated extreme loyalty and hyper-competence and outshined Doug more than once, and yet they're still, "Well, we've got to get rid of Leann, she's a loose cannon."

TWIST: Reginald is as bad at sex work as he is at IT.

"Can I get…. extra mustard on that? Eh? EH? EXTRA?"

YATZEE!

Hey, man, whatever turns you on.

But it is tied to it, certainly. Frank comes off as a Kinsey 4 (largely bisexual but stronger leaning towards gay), which is something he keeps hidden for the sake of his political career. But we've seen that it's not only a thing Claire is aware of, but that she encourages and even helps enable him getting what he…

I felt it was more her choice. If memory serves in her first flashback, she shows up at the gangbanger party, and the ganger leader is all, "No, you've got a shot, you shouldn't be here." She chose it despite the active discouragement.

Janae always struck me as someone who pretends she's not as smart as she actually is— like she's trying to fit into the prison persona she's supposed to have. So this flashback fit in with things I already saw in her.

I think we saw the religion in her background in one of the episodes where the flashbacks showed several different prisoners in similar themes (namely, the religion they grew up with.)

But I think this highlights that choice: she already thinks the system is rigged, so does a college career really matter?

My very white high school chorus did selections from Porgy & Bess. Yeah.

She more intentionally sought out the wrong crowd. Which fits with this flashback: she has opportunities, but is all, "Screw it, the game is rigged anyway."

I think more so, that she made the choice to NOT get out even though she had the brains and ability to do so. She decided not to bother.

Except, how often does that actually happen? Usually the kind of movie that gets a bunch of barely positive reviews will also get a bunch of indifferent-to-kinda-negative reviews, and end up in the 60% range. I mean, yeah, the system can, technically, be gamed, but that doesn't tend to happen.

That's not how it tends to go. "Good but not great" usually ends up in the 70-80 range. I mean, it's not perfect, but I've found the RT number to be a pretty good quality indicator.

Hot like wasabi because I bust rhymes.

One thing I've always liked about this show and Frank & Claire's relationship is how they've both been open with each other about their extramarital sex, but how little that sex matters to either of them outside of their devotion to each other. And that sometimes it's just a tool for political ends, and they both…

Well, at least she has a consistent type.

I can squint and kind of appreciate how it's trying to make the machinations of democracy just theatre. Like, yes, we'll make a "special election" in Ohio, but we all really know that this'll be decided by a bunch of powerful assholes smoking cigars at a private camp.

Except the Underwoods spun the photo as one they commissioned for themselves. So to the public, she didn't have an affair with the photographer, she just posed for him.