![]() (Also one of the McPoyles would be overly attached to a guinea pig.Something that’s easy to forget, looking back on the 10 years since House of Cards first debuted on Netflix, is how ugly and strange a show it was. ![]() Those squealing noises were almost too much to bear. In fact, Cashew may be the only totally innocent character on the show. (Side note: Meechum was off duty so wouldn’t someone else have had to come on duty and check in with the Underwoods? Wouldn’t they have heard or seen something?)Ĭashew may be just a guinea pig, but he doesn’t deserve to be crushed underfoot. After all, weren’t they just bemoaning the fact that the limelight prevents either of them from having affairs? But even after Meechum walked in on Frank watching porn and Claire got too drunk for her own good, I still didn’t see this one coming. Though Frank’s sexuality is ultimately still up in the air, it’s not all that surprising that he and Claire would seduce a young Secret Service agent together. We learned last year when Frank revisited his bygone college years that he had a history of sexual involvement with men. Let’s hope this isn’t the last we see of him. Good for Freddy for refusing the Underwoods’ money. The move was shocking because Freddy’s criminal past popped up out of nowhere - wouldn’t Frank or the first reporter have looked into that? - and because part of me still wanted to believe the man who throws people in front of subway cars still had a heart, albeit a cold one. But in the end, Frank still did it - he sacrificed his only real friend for his White House dreams. Frank had a hard time cutting Freddy out (a harder time, I would point out, than Claire had manipulating Adam, a man she supposedly loved once upon a time). Freddy was easily the best character on this show, and the only person who made Frank Underwood seem human. Frank mentioned at the end of the episode that they had put an APB out on Doug’s car, so the big question is - where did Rachel go? Did she pick up Lisa and try to make a run for it? Did she dump the car? Did she wander back into that Twin Peaks-esque forest? I’m hoping she teams up with someone else who wants revenge against the Underwoods - maybe Freddy or Janine. Who knew that Rachel had that in her? I guess Doug forcing her to break up with Lisa was the last straw. But nonetheless - her “I will not be ashamed” speech was brave and inspiring, however calculated it might have been. And yes, I know she was lying about the number of abortions she actually had and maybe the circumstances under which she had them. Yes, she’s still a morally bankrupt, manipulative woman who intentionally ruined the lives of her ex-lover, the First Lady and a fellow rape victim this season. I actually cheered for Claire this episode. Ah - there’s still so much to be unraveled in season three. That said, considering the brick incident last season, it’s impossible to put anything past the Underwoods. I doubt that the reveal about the rape was calculated, unless Underwood hired or blackmailed that man into sending fake anthrax to the White House so he couldn’t make the interview (and had the same man later to plant the bomb in front of their doorstep). After all, her trauma leads to a bill - a bill which is later leveraged as a bargaining tool for political support when Underwood takes aim at the Oval Office. ![]() But soon Claire’s rape, like everything else in the show, becomes a means of leverage for the Underwoods. At first, Claire’s history with General Dalton McGinnis seemed to be a ploy to garner sympathy for her - much like some accused Scandal of doing with Mellie’s rape earlier this season. Specifically, she cries when she is forced to face her rapist. ![]() ![]() But despite all his wealth, he only ends up being a pawn in Tusk’s game - and his strange sexual fantasies never come back into play.Ĭlaire does something rare this season - she cries. Sure, we get the sense that Feng is a bored and slightly scary billionaire. What was so surprising and bizarre about the first shot of Feng with his head in a bag is that we never saw anything like it again. Who is this man? Is he being tortured? Oh, nope - this is a sex thing. ![]()
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