House of Cards is a lovely trainwreck 2 episodes in. Even better than stro advertised.
The dialogue gets to True Detective Season 2 levels of bad.
The oligarch woman that Claire meets with is hilariously bad in her role. It's like watching a badly acted Disney movie villain.
Also, Mark is just openly sleaze bagging his way through the first two episodes without shame.
The moment real Jim Acosta talked in a panel on fake CNN
Also notice how everyone knows everything because it somehow 'leaks'. Events that just happened or were spontaneously set-up.
Apparently if you have money you have your own secret service guys digging up the graves of former presidents. YES IT IS THAT BAD.
Robin Wright seems to be the only person that actually tries to make it work but even she had to realize how comically stupid this entire thing is.
I don't know what if any input Spacey had on the writing. But I doubt he would've handled this the same way.
HOC used to have these smoldering fires, where you weren't sure what was going to surface and impact the story and what didn't.
Small events could turn into big plot points while seemingly big events could throw you off. Season 6 is pretty much all "wink wink, nudge nudge" giving away everthing in the first 2 eps.