'House of Cards' review by a South Carolinian

I do like this series, I do.  But....a few things annoy.  First of all, a DEMOCRATIC Congressman from South Carolina?  please.  I suppose they exist but so does the white rhino, but believable?

And that accent? or.....what accent?  Depends which scene you're talking about I suppose, as it comes and goes willy-nilly.  I was just thinking about accents recently...wondering if it's just southerners that can tell how bad the accent is when a non-southern acTOR tries one on.  How unbelievably annoying it is, how it ruins everything.  Every scene is an endurance.  I'm over half way through the series at this point, so it is good, it does entertain, but when the accent appears it's hard to stay focused.

When the accent disappears during filming, does the director just not notice? Do the other actors just not notice?  Or do they just defer to the great acTOR and his judgement?  Or is it just so bad that they're secretly happy when its no longer used?  It seems to have dissipated as the series goes on, so I thought that might have been an actual decision....but nope...it rears up now and again and not just in the 'Gaffney' episode.

Why tell Russo to not put up a fight for the shipyards?  What was the point of that? If it was a done deal, what difference would at least letting him present a face-saving argument in front of the committee made?  The no-argument would have been known to piss off his base, which could have lost him the next election, which would have made him useless.  Don't get it, not yet at least.

Where has the addressing the camera gone?  That's also disappearing like the accent, not sure why. I like it when it's not ridiculously heavy-handed.  And seeing Spacey as a wolf devouring a young girl isn't so believable anymore.  Too much innuendo surrounds him.  Kind of the opposite of what a 'Jennifer Anniston' does, as her personal life overshadows every role and doesn't let her inhabit any of them.  His lack of presentation of any kind of a personal life makes him not so much of a chameleon, but a liar by omission. And that holds him, and us, back.

And speaking about innuendo, that conversation about past indiscretions at a military college between two men would not have happened by Francis.  The conversation, that is.  He would not have thought of it fondly, he would have been trying, and succeeded to forget it.  

That's it for now, besides a few recovery program inconsistencies, but no need to dwell on those at this point.  There'll be more.