Looks like Raymond Tusk (also conveniently lacking any discernible values, except for money and power) has started funneling his vast wealth to the other team through a labyrinthine path that involves Chinese billionaire Xander Feng, Daniel Lanagin, Lanagin’s casinos, a trip to St. Instead of tackling any number of legitimately interesting issues - education was an okay starter in the first season where’s the conversation on health care, employment, gay marriage, equal pay for equal work, the environment, the housing crisis, I could go on - House of Cards takes on the funding of Frank’s Republican opponents in the House. All they talk about is power, but what is it they want to do with this elusive power once they have it? We know that the president and Frank are Democrats, but we have no idea why, or if either of them even believes in the broadest, most basic platforms of the party. What is going on the country, down on the ground? We know the economy is bad and electric bills are high, but we never meet anyone (other than Freddy) who can’t afford to make rent. Maybe this wouldn’t be so problematic if the president were given a real cause to care about, but one of House of Cards’ greatest weaknesses is that it takes place in some context-free, unrecognizable America.
How did this woman ever make it through the campaign?
Meanwhile, Walker’s wife is frail-seeming, cripplingly insecure, and desperate, grasping at Claire for support like Gretchen Wieners panting at Regina George’s heel. He has zero point of view, no vision, no ambition that we’ve witnessed except to keep his head above water. Given the opportunity to write a POTUS character who could actually keep up with Frank, House of Cards has given us Walker, a man whose voice has only one tone - it sounds like he is rehearsing a speech every time he opens his mouth - and whose only conviction is that he agrees with whoever spoke to him most recently. How the hell did President Walker get elected in the first place? I find it hard to believe, in the dog-eat-dog (or I guess dog-gets-strangled-in-the-street) Washington in which House of Cards is based, Garrett Walker could even get elected class president at Sidwell Friends. Unlike Doug on a weird side plot with prostitutes, I do not waste any time. This episode begins with an attack ad, which is fitting because my recap starts with an attack.
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