You know, I’ve JUST …
No, scrub that.
I was going to tell you I’d just got home.
But that’s not strictly the case.
I actually got home, just before seven. Grabbed something to eat … and had a shower.
And only THEN decided that, as I had the evening to myself, I should really be taking a little time to just sit in Front of the TV, and watch something.
As I was feeling clean, after a hard days work!
Clean and fed, I think I can safely say … I wanted to catch up.
Very specifically catch up with House of Cards …
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Episode 8 presents Frank with a dilemma: his ‘America Works’ programme has been funded — thus far — by monies from the US FEMA agency.
FEMA’s bosses — and the appropriate Congressional committees — want Frank to do sign an emergency bill: one that will grant official cash to the AmWork project …
AND put MORE cash into FEMA …
As hurricane Faith gradually heads to the East Coast of the US.
Things are getting tense …
It’s only at the end of the episode, Frank decides he can be candid with his biographer, Thomas Yates (Paul Sparks) …
Telling Yates that the only way he can guarantee the America Works programme goes through, as the incumbent President.
Which means standing, in 2016.
Politicians lie, remember?
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Now … ?
Good … ?
Yes, actually.
Although I have to point out that Chapter 34 was comparatively light on major plot points: it struck the the episode was filling in the Details of why Frank has Decided to Run for President, and very little else.
Still?
It does carry the plot forward, I think.
Leaving me wanting more …
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