Due to the series making Frank seem to be the only intelligent politician in the whole U.S. Especially, but not only in Spacey's one-sided conversations with the audience, the words are unrealistically grandiloquent and delivered faster than I could read them out loud, while they at the same time lack something to make them worth listening to. Another, slightly shrinking pro in this episode, is the script – great with characters and plot (I'm unaware how much of that was taken from the British original, though), but disappointing with the dialogue, an equally important matter for a series about politics. The good-looking visuals may not be a proper compensation for that, but I did again find numerous praiseworthy things in the work cinematographer Eigil Bryld and his crew achieved, such as Frank smearing blood-reminiscent sauce on the President's picture in a newspaper in just that opening scene, so the look of the series stays one of its biggest merits. The opening scene, kicking in directly where chapter one left off, assures us that Kevin Spacey's weird unfitting monologues aren't something House of Cards is likely to drop very soon, and thus smashes the feeble hopes I've had after watching the pilot. Nevertheless, David Fincher's second and (presumably) last directing effort on the series is fine work and an interesting look at politics, just one that could benefit from some more vigour and spirit. House of Cards doesn't exactly incur a collapse in quality in its second chapter, but it does lose some of the appeal it previously had, as the general course of the Netflix project becomes clearer.
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