House of Cards tells the story of a cold-blooded American congressman and his equally ambitious wife exercising power in the White House in Washington. The hero Frank Underwood is the whip of the majority party in the US House of Representatives. He is a wily professional politician. He firmly believed that the newly elected president of the United States and his aides betrayed him, so he vowed to oust the president, and he made a series of arrangements by hook or by crook.
House of Cards is a political TV series produced by Netflix, which is adapted from michael dobbs's novel of the same name, directed by James Frey and david fincher, and adapted by Beau Willimon. Starring kevinspacey fowler, robin wright, michael kelly, Lars Micol, kate mara and Christine Connolly.
Francis Underwood, a representative of the Democratic Party of South Carolina, has great political ambitions and is the whip of the majority party in the House of Representatives. He helped Garrett Walker win the election and became the 45th president of the United States. Walker promised to appoint him as Secretary of State in return. However, before Walker was sworn in, White House Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez told Underwood that the president would not nominate him as Secretary of State because he wanted him to stay in Congress and push the bill through. Underwood was very angry at the president's betrayal. He decided to go it alone and gradually realize his dream of being president.
The skeleton of a political drama is the history of personal crawling, and flesh and blood are all kinds of details that constitute "how to face power, ambition and depravity". Although the second part gathers the main line and the theme is more concentrated, the story is not as compact and perfect as the first season. The newly added characters and emotional scenes are also relatively blunt. For example, Jacqueline Sharp, a female politician who took Underwood's gun as a whip, was more suitable to compete with Mrs. Underwood, but her personality was not sufficient. Both her feelings with Remy and her political war decisions are almost as good as those of the female journalists who also shared the scene in the first season. The same problem happened to President Walker and Underwood's first political enemy, Stark. The more Underwood risked his life, the more suspicious President Walker became. How does such a weak man get along with the president? Fortunately, the performance of the hero and heroine didn't disappoint. They were smart and cruel, just a couple of thieves and robbers aiming at the Oval Office. Kevinspacey Fowler is still domineering.