{"id":42003,"date":"2014-02-25T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42003"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:16:57","slug":"review-house-of-cards-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42003","title":{"rendered":"Review:  &#8220;House Of Cards&#8221;, Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched both seasons of Netflix&#8217;s drama &#8220;House of Cards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>PROS:\u00a0 Well-written, generally-tautly-paced, intricately-plotted, it rewards the viewer with an attention span.\u00a0 It&#8217;s superbly-acted by a stellar cast of excellent actors and Robin\u00a0Wright.<\/p>\n<p>CONS:\u00a0 It asks the viewer for one absolutely implausible suspension of dispbelief; the idea that a DC newspaper would energetically investigate a Democrat for corruption. \u00a0(Bonus suspension &#8211; that the Chinese would sneak money to Republicans, and that the Dems would\u00a0buck the teachers&#8217; union and demand entitlement reform).<\/p>\n<p>RATING:\u00a0 Four &#8220;Shots In The Dark&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve watched both seasons of Netflix&#8217;s drama &#8220;House of Cards&#8221;. PROS:\u00a0 Well-written, generally-tautly-paced, intricately-plotted, it rewards the viewer with an attention span.\u00a0 It&#8217;s superbly-acted by a stellar cast of excellent actors and Robin\u00a0Wright. CONS:\u00a0 It asks the viewer for one absolutely implausible suspension of dispbelief; the idea that a DC newspaper would energetically investigate a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42003"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42078,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42003\/revisions\/42078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}