It’s significant that for the first time, though, Frank has wondered aloud whether this particular step might be too far. But, as Claire points out, their big advantage is that they’ll go farther than anyone else to get elected. The scene where Frank imagined a duel with Conway in front of the portraits of his predecessors was classic Cards fun, and while it seemed for a bit that he was waffling about wiretapping for ethical reasons, the real reasons for him to pause, it later became clearer, are the political and legal risks. The NSA plotline seems a bit ridiculous you can practically hear the screenwriters brainstorming ways to work in hot-button issues like domestic surveillance and ISIS into the story and then hitting upon a way to join the two. But throughout the hour, we saw them support and improve each other in concrete ways, most obviously by rehearsing negotiations with the NRA lobbyists and congressional leadership. Claire and Frank are back together and working to achieve the bigger goal Frank starts his search for a running mate and begins a campaign to weaken Conway. When Frank was mansplaining the need for steely guts toward the start of the episode, I worried that the peace they’d established would turn out to be fragile. Chapter 46 is the seventh episode of Season 4 of House of Cards.It aired on March 4th, 2016, along with the rest of season 4. Or maybe the Underwoods will come up with a plan that’s yet more devious, generated by a working relationship that’s stronger than ever. How many episodes before the Underwoods plant a dirty photo in their stream? One? It’s also totally ghastly: a reminder that social media has turned us all into politicians and valorized vanity (did you catch the Conways watching themselves in the mirror as they had sex?), not to mention the ease with which it turns children into props. But the gimmick of his family curating their life on a publicly accessible cell-phone camera is a plausible bit of marketing genius.
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Will is a particularly charming incarnation of the film/TV trope of a young handsome veteran governing a state from across the ideological aisle. The Conways are a fiction so tantalizing that you wonder why the real political parties haven’t served up something like them already. I’m not complaining: There was a lightness to the hour as it embraced trashy fun rather than high melodrama, and the conflict it sets up is a good one. The frequent cross-cutting from the director Tom Shankland feels like it’s out of a Steven Soderbergh film. Frank’s back to addressing the camera on a regular basis.
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Instead of carrying over the storylines and tensions that accompanied that struggle, we get a fresh slate of ‘em, and the result feels like a whole new show. The arc of the previous six episodes, centered mostly on the struggle between Claire and Frank, has drawn to a conclusion for now (and Frank’s almost fully recovered from his life-or-death ordeal, with the only significant effect seeming to be a head of grey hairs). You could call this Chapter 46 or you could call it the start of House of Cards season 4.5.
HOUSE OF CARDS SEASON 4 EPISODE 7 RECAP TV
Adam feels she is reading too much into things Joy clearly likes her.As in previous years, I’m binge-reviewing the latest season of Netflix’s House of Cards, the TV show that helped popularize the idea of “binge watching” when it premiered in 2013.
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She asks Adam what he thinks, explaining it’s been a year since Avery’s death, and she is not sure if Joy’s yellow roses mean friendship or something more. Zoey receives Joy’s flowers but is not sure of their meaning. However, Sam can barely focus on old tricks as he thinks Joanne needs to use a wheelchair as her ataxia worsens. It was a trick where his grandfather made a ring magically appear in a lemon. There was just one trick Sam could not accomplish – the Lemon Twist. When she reveals it to Sam, she learns about the Remarkable Radfords magic shows. Abigail soon realizes they are in a flower war as three of her clients cancel their orders.Ĭassie finds Sam’s old magic set from his grandfather in a hope chest. He is no longer interested in buying her out as he has bought the other nearby shops. Shortly after, Abigail learns the man who almost bought her shop is a part of a company called Flower Universe. Joy gets Abigail’s help with flowers for Zoey.