![]() Lying about it when the earrings were literally in the most obvious place - the drawer of her vanity - is so amateur. ![]() She stole Claire’s earrings, which would have been a cool power play if she had (a) done a better job of hiding them or (b) been more brazen and just worn them. Lizzie update: Sadly, we see very little of Claire’s mom this week. Might just be hope yet for this hopeless bro. But later on, we see her have a change of heart about his conspiracy theory. ![]() He tells Dunbar everything she, understandably, dismisses him as a wackadoo liability and leaves him sobbing and begging for help in a stairwell. Lucas manages to get face time with Dunbar by pretending to be a journalist - how poetic, his fake identity is his real identity - and his former colleague, Cynthia, who is now Dunbar’s campaign manager, vouches for him. There is obviously an obstacle here - the existing obstacles, wherein Lucas has been given strict rules by which he must abide lest he lose the freedom and government protection he fought so hard to secure, apparently not being enough - and that obstacle is the coworker who goes for that one-two punch of demanding he pay for this favor with ~sex things~ and blackmailing him so he has nowhere to go but the backseat. It’s a relic of his old life: He learns that Heather Dunbar will be in Ohio on Tuesday, and so begins Lucas’s elaborate plot to blow up Frank’s elaborate plots. Lucas is cleaning rental cars, generally enjoying the thrills of his new WITSEC job, when he sees a print newspaper tossed on the floor. But it’s basically Scandal without a sense of humor. ![]() House of Cards is operating under the misconception that it is a real-deal top-tier prestige drama. Just because something has all the trappings of “serious” doesn’t automatically make it worth taking seriously. In this episode, we see a classic error, which, in the summer of 2013, one would have called a Low Winter Sun failure: Mistaking darkness for depth. Much like its characters, House of Cards can’t stop making the same mistakes over and over again. ![]()
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