A couple of things struck be. They (the Dems) called the Tea Party ‘stubborn’ in trying to swing RINO votes.
It doesn’t paint Pro-Lifers in a positive light.
One such ‘threat’ in the second season was a returning vet.....wife had an abortion.....wanted to ‘get back’ at politicians by planting a bomb.
This is the 2nd season.
They also painted Libertarians a nutjobs in the first season.
Good one. Yes, HOC is more even handed than most shows. Knocking both sides.
The funny part is the press going after the Democrats. Talk about fiction. They even had Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow going after Democrats. Now that is funny.
The same thing for the West Wing.
Reporters asking tough questions of Democrats. A laugh a minute.
Republicans are stupid and incompetent, theoretically not criminal acts.
Although certainly on the extreme with the murder of fellow congress man, etc, it definitely shows DC as a real cesspool. For that, it backs the Tea Party vision of a smaller less powerful government. This probably isn’t the intent, but it is a result. In the plot lines, it centers around the Democrats, but doesn’t show anyone else in a good light either.
It is rather like the old TV show, Dallas — backstabbing, conniving, more backstabbing, and lying, with an occasional body.
Very entertaining.
It does take an occasional jab at the TP and GOP.
One of my favorite scenes is when Kevin Spacey gets that Jack wagon, who won’t work with him, to punch his nose and leave a crime scene all over his shirt.
Game over and felony.
“I now own you and you will do such and such”.
Spacey’s character and that of Robin Wright are the ultimate cynical couple making blood sport of DC and enjoying a marriage of mutual contract and certain conveniences.
Kate Mara is hot.
I’d hit that in a New York Minute or be all over it like white on rice .
Excellent series and look forward to season two.
This show is realistic enough about how rotten the Democrat party and Washington DC are. There is some gratuitous perversion such as a Secret Service agent kissing a man as they ease into sex that is not shown. Gotta keep the show edgy!! (and stoooopid)
Some lesbian sex is shown.
One thing that is cool is the Democrat president-— half his screen time is his presidential duties. The other half is party politics. It shows the president as just another political operative most of the time. I have no doubt that Obungu is even worse with the majority of his time being spent on Democrap politics and fundraising and a fraction of his time on being president. That this is why the Benghazi disaster took place
my missus and myself have 3 shows we love Walking Dead (absolutely fantastic), SOA (not the architecture — sons of anarchy) and house of cards.
we were remarking the other night that there is loads of pro conservative comments in it. firstly the main character Frank and his wife are die hard libs (aka political hacks) so any complaint they have about conservatives and libertarians has to be seen in this light. a nut job calling libertarians nutty is a compliment.
The tea party guy comes off as inexperienced (a good thing), unwilling to engage (a good thing), unwilling to compromise (a good thing) and when he does he calls it in terms of ‘ i dont trust anything you say’ and backs out. He is tricked by senate rules — again a slick willie trick.
There is even a comment on Bush when the reporter is explaining to a class how he was cut apart on a question about a supermarket scanner ‘how does that work’. the teacher was explaining the context of the question Bush was asking was what is the difference between the older version and the newer version, but the press painted it in terms of he is unaware how a scanner works. i think it is a fantastic show, but only half way through season 2. I hate to say it you do get the horrible feeling that it isnt a million miles from the truth...but it should be..
Spacey is a Hugo Chavez leftist.