House of Cards

House of CardsHelp! My partner is making us watch this show episode by episode, and he can tell I actually spend most of the hour looking away from the screen and scowling. I just wait for it to be over from the second he presses play.It’s just not healthy for me to keep watching a show when I wish terrorists would break in and kill the protagonist at every moment. I don’t want Frank Underwood to succeed. I don’t want to know what he’s up to next. I don’t want any of his friends to support him. I would hate to think anyone in actual government is like this man. Where is Brutus when you need him? Seriously, someone please stab Kevin Spacey’s character to death sometime soon, so this travesty won’t have to continue.This show leaves me with no one to root for, and no outcome to events that I actually want to see come about. It forces us to listen to Kevin Spacey periodically talking to the audience, when we’ve long since ceased giving a damn what he’s thinking or how he’ll justify his next move. One wants to take a shower after every episode, and were it not for my partner’s insistence, I would have stopped watching this after the first three or so episodes. There are no spoiler alerts here because I just don’t care anymore how it turns out. I wish I had the freedom to stop watching it. Don’t waste as much mental energy as I have wasted in hating this character and everyone involved in bringing him to our television sets!Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.House of Cards is an adaptation of a previous BBC miniseries of the same name, which is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs.