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Introduction

  • U.S. Air Date - February 01, 2013
  • Tagline(s) - There are two kinds of pain.
  • Synopsis - After he's denied the job of secretary of state by the newly elected president, Congressman Francis Underwood plots his revenge, aided by his loyalists on Capitol Hill and a brash young newspaper reporter who will stop at nothing to promote her own career.
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Insight

  • If TMZ is doing better than you, shouldn't they be the bar, if not the ballpark?
  • I don't always get the job, but when I do I still keep my old job.
  • So close to sunset and so far from sunrise is a long way of saying its midnight and I'm tired.
  • When offered a drink, a favor tends to follow
  • Talk, paper, shredder, tape.

Summary

  • The fourth wall broken in the extended universe to The West Wing.
  • Reel Score - A
  • Positive(s)
    • Intertwined storylines
    • Backstories introduced appropriately
  • Negative(s)
    • One character is always an alcoholic

 

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