“House of Cards” may well be the most joyless show on television.
Colors
are so washed-out that the closest thing to brightness in all that
gray, taupe and black is an orange Post-it note. There is no laughter,
not even the forced bonhomie that real politicians trade in cloakrooms
and on cable news talk shows. This Netflix series is more cynical than
“The Americans” on FX and more pessimistic about human nature than “The
Walking Dead” on AMC.
are so washed-out that the closest thing to brightness in all that
gray, taupe and black is an orange Post-it note. There is no laughter,
not even the forced bonhomie that real politicians trade in cloakrooms
and on cable news talk shows. This Netflix series is more cynical than
“The Americans” on FX and more pessimistic about human nature than “The
Walking Dead” on AMC.
Yet
it’s hard not to feel giddy delight at the first sight of those
emblematic clouds rolling across the landscape of the nation’s capital
and plunging the city into a Stygian gloom.
it’s hard not to feel giddy delight at the first sight of those
emblematic clouds rolling across the landscape of the nation’s capital
and plunging the city into a Stygian gloom.