Chapter 14
- Episode aired Feb 14, 2014
- TV-MA
- 50m
Frank prepares for his promotion to Vice President. Doug tries to erase all leads leading back to him and Frank. Claire fights back against Gillian. Zoe considers working with Frank again.Frank prepares for his promotion to Vice President. Doug tries to erase all leads leading back to him and Frank. Claire fights back against Gillian. Zoe considers working with Frank again.Frank prepares for his promotion to Vice President. Doug tries to erase all leads leading back to him and Frank. Claire fights back against Gillian. Zoe considers working with Frank again.
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- Trivia(at around 29 mins) Frank and Freddy are discussing over the slaying of the pigs, Freddy hitting the table while he speaks was unscripted, actor Reg E. Cathey improvised and thought it'll help settle the mood better, therefore Kevin Spacey's reaction was fully natural.
- GoofsWhen Zoe is looking for Frank on the Cathedral Heights metro platform, a station list is seen on the wall across the tracks. It clearly lists the stations of the Baltimore Metro, starting with Johns Hopkins Hospital on the left, then Shot Tower, etc. They added signage for a fictitious Cathedral Heights station in DC, but neglected to correct the station list sign. The scene was clearly shot in the Baltimore Metro system, not DC.
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Francis Underwood: Did you think that I'd forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had. Don't waste a breath mourning Miss Barnes, every kitten grows up to be a cat. They seem so harmless at first. Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk. But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood. Sometimes from the hand that feeds them. For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted. Welcome back.
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Composed by MC Magico and Alex Wilson
No, I'm starting to hate the show because they think that being cynical is good enough on its own to carry a show. It's not. When Game of Thrones punishes the audience, it feels earned. When Breaking Bad punishes the audience, it feels earned. Even something lighter in tone like Orange is the New Black accomplishes this fairly well in its first few series. But when this show punishes the audience, it feels like it's because the writers believe this tool in itself has value, when in reality the true goal of punishing the audience is to make them feel emotionally torn for investing in characters and to make them hate the villains enough to stay tuned. I don't feel foolish for investing in these characters so much as for investing in the writers. And my hate is not directed at Frank; instead, it's directed at them.
The finale directly tells the audience "F. U." for being upset at what just happened, but the actual issue with this is that nothing I just watched made any sense and logically it would have just made everything worse for Frank. It has a built-in defence of, "If you hate this episode, you're playing into our hands". That's cheap, and it's lazy. In one fell swoop, it discarded 4 previous episodes of plot, and did it in such a way that felt completely unearned, and only there to incense the audience. It's as if they think being alienating is the same thing as being provocative - that they think people will be talking about this moment, and it will make people want to watch the show. Maybe that worked back when the episode first aired, but it's bad writing through and through, and premised on the idea that the writers toying with the audience is charming because Frank lampshades it with one of his patented monologues.
No, I didn't believe for a second that you forgot about us, Frank, because these writers are predictable, superficial, and fall back on the same formulae again and again. But thanks for checking in, you moustache-twirling cliche.
- morosezaragoza
- Jan 4, 2019
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