Chapter 46
- Episode aired Mar 4, 2016
- TV-MA
- 52m
Frank and Claire adjust to their new reality. The search for Frank's running mate begins. Frank starts a campaign to weaken Conway's strong support.Frank and Claire adjust to their new reality. The search for Frank's running mate begins. Frank starts a campaign to weaken Conway's strong support.Frank and Claire adjust to their new reality. The search for Frank's running mate begins. Frank starts a campaign to weaken Conway's strong support.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDuring his speech to supporters in New York, Conway tells the crowd his grandfather set sail from a nearby dock during World War 2 to fight in the Pacific. This is historically false, as those soldiers going to fight in the Pacific actually set sail from the West Coast.
- GoofsIn a speech, Conway refers to Thomas Jefferson as the founder of the Republican Party. This party was actually founded in 1854, long after Jefferson's death. Jefferson did help found a party that originally went by the name of Republican, but this party is the ancestor of the current Democratic Party.
- Quotes
Francis Underwood: Imagine a duel. Me and Conway. Now, Conway has a powerful gun, a search engine. And it's powerful because with it, he can tell what you think, what you want, where you are and who you are. He can turn all those searches into votes, and that's enough bullets to kill my chances of winning. But I have an even bigger gun. It's called the NSA. It's one of the perks of being president. That is, if the courts allow my surveillance request.
Francis Underwood: [indicating portraits of past presidents] I imagine the men hanging on these walls wished they'd had a gun like that available to them. Your phone, the phone of the person sitting next to you, your neighbor's phone and everyone you know and the 300 million Americans you don't know. I can see you, and I can use what I see to rig this election.
Francis Underwood: Now, of course, a weapon like that, well, you can imagine how risky it is. Huh, it might have even given pause to an old crook like him.
[indicating Nixon]
Francis Underwood: I mean, they roasted him on the spit for tapping into a few rooms at the Watergate. I'm talking about tapping into every single home in America. And a weapon like that could blow up in my hand and that's why it's plan B. Plan A is much safer. Expose that Conway is using his gun illegally and remove the weapon from his hand.
Francis Underwood: [standing between Kennedy and Reagan] Hmm, all three of us took bullets. Well, I know why we're smiling. We survived.
This is an entertaining episode that for me takes the show back to its earlier style of Frank and Claire against the world. We are introduced to a new fresh-faced opponent and we see the Underwoods gearing up for the fight.
The plot again takes some suspension of disbelief to buy into. I'm a cynic and think its par for the course that governments use internet information as part of campaign research, so the big deal made over this is somewhat surprising. The gun control plot is a bit more interesting from my perspective as someone living in a country that doesn't have a gun culture so I'm keen to see where writers go with it.
Technically it is a well made episode, particularly the editing and how the scenes cross cut and jump cut to different visuals whilst keeping continuity with the subject matter. The cinematography is as great as ever and I enjoyed the use of music, particularly during Conway's cheesy, patriotic speech in front of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are great as always and there is a nice scene with Boris McGiver and Constance Zimmer indicating that Frank's skeletons may yet be resurfaced.
- snoozejonc
- Nov 10, 2020
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