The 13 episodes of the third season of the American political drama TV series “House of Cards” have already been released in Netflix beginning on February 27, 2015.
Fans and followers of the TV series have since chewed on every episode of “House of Cards” Season 3, dissecting it like the typical critics, and expressing their comments or opinions on various internet news and social media sites as today’s usual form of fan outlet.
“House of Cards” is a very typical political drama and its main strengths are actually Kevin Spacey and the previous awards that the TV series has received during its first two seasons.
As far as the plots and storylines of the TV series are concerned, there is nothing new that any American televiewer or the avid couch potato would find surprising or new in a TV show that has the White House as setting.
There have been a number of movies and TV series that featured the lives of powerful people living in the White House and “House of Cards” simply walked everyone through the gory day-to-day details. It’s like a reality TV show filmed in the White House and the stakes are bigger since it involves the American president, the most powerful man in the world.
Nothing new and surprising
But in terms of what every episode has to offer for a plotline, there is nothing spectacular to speak of to make it fodder for TV viewers from days on end.
Nearly everyone has seen or heard of those things in the White House like the President and the First Lady not getting along in private but appears okay in public; or the President telling all his secrets in a confidante-writer who shall eventually write his life story, while the writer has an up and coming relationship with another journalist opening a major leak of information; or how the President is plotting his political plans and flip-flopping from his earlier decision not to run for re-election and then decides to run again; or how the President deals with a possible military action in a Middle East country; or his wheelings and dealings with a former Cold War enemy.
These subplots were actually the main fare of the seventh episode of Season 3 of “House of Cards” and there’s nothing groundbreaking about it. While there is some element of suspense in some of it, it’s not like televiewers are not aware how it is going to conclude.
Some of the subplots in past episodes of “House of Cards” have happened in real life so people who know their American politics already have a good idea how those conflicts are going to be resolved or ended.
Fans are still glued to “House of Cards” not because of its superb storytelling or groundbreaking plots or subplots in each episode. They have become attached to the show because of Kevin Spacey, the awards that the TV series has gotten in the past, and how all of these play out in their respective curiosities.