Nine weeks after Election Day, the Underwoods work to consolidate their power. Leann tries to track down a missing Aidan Macallan.Nine weeks after Election Day, the Underwoods work to consolidate their power. Leann tries to track down a missing Aidan Macallan.Nine weeks after Election Day, the Underwoods work to consolidate their power. Leann tries to track down a missing Aidan Macallan.
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- GoofsIn the opening dialogue, Kevin Spacey is discussing the 12th amendment, and what happens if the states don't certify election results. He states that the House of Representatives votes to decide who becomes President, and the Senate votes to determine who becomes Vice President. He says if there is a tie in the Senate, then it comes down to a coin toss. This is incorrect. According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the speaker of the House will serve as President until tie votes in both the House and the Senate are broken. It does not come down to a coin toss.
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Claire Underwood: You're a fool, Donald. You always were. You and your dumb, dead wife that you never, ever shut up about. Principled? Idealistic? A champion for the people? What did you ever actually do? Nothing. The great crusader? I don't think so. You just liked the position of the bumbling idiot that you are. The optimist. The idealist. You loved it so much that you couldn't even make a deal or move a single thing forward. You have a legacy of nothing. Sign the measure, get the Republicans off the floor, start the vote now.
Donald Blythe: Do you know what I just realized? Your initials they're missing an "n" and a "t".
Did think Season 5 could have been so much better on the whole and the first four seasons are far superior, having a significantly higher number of good and more episodes. But it is certainly far more watchable than Season 6 (seen after my initial review for the whole show before hearing there was definitely going to be a sixth season). "Chapter 57" is no exception to this, though for me it is on the same level as "Chapter 55" with the same good things pretty much but the problems are also similar here to that episode. So not a bad episode but way off from the best of 'House of Cards', which proved in Seasons 1-4 that it could be absolutely amazing.
Starting with the good things, the production values are uniformly great. The photography's high quality throughout the show's run has never been in doubt. The music complements well. Standing out quite a lot is Claire's intimidation of Blythe, Claire's icy demeanour is quite frightening then.
And Frank shows why he is one of the most fascinating lead characters on contemporary television, that is not a joke on my part. Doug's conflict and loyalty questioning is indeed tense. Seeing a different and harsher side to Conway was interesting and appreciated, it didn't feel like it came too suddenly either. The performances are uniformly great with no real exception.
"Chapter 57" for my tastes was too talky. Frank's dialogue does tend to ramble. It would have benefitted from not being quite as cramped, because it feels like new promising ideas are being introduced but not completely followed through all the way.
There are character relationships that did start here to feel confused with some decisions not really ringing true, too many of the characters are fairly bland and not as compelling or plausible as before. Am really not a fan of Yates as a character or how he has been used this season.
In conclusion, another above average episode but a long way from this mostly great show being on top form. 6/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Apr 14, 2020
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- Runtime51 minutes
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