The second season of the American television drama series House of Cards began filming a set of 13 episodes on April 29, 2013 and concluded on November 8. House of Cards (season 2)The second season of the American television drama series House of Cards began filming a set of 1. April 2. 9, 2. 01. November 8. Filming occurred primarily in Baltimore. On December 4, 2. Netflix announced that the season would be released in its entirety on February 1. Set in current day Washington, D. C., season two deals with topics such as entitlement reform, Chinese cyberespionage, anthrax scares, Senate parliamentary procedure, and government shutdowns. It begins at the exact time that season one ended. Critics previewed the first four episodes of the season under non- disclosure agreements that they not reveal any spoilers. Reviews began appearing as early as January 3. Many critics who previewed the season noted the first episode was shocking, but withheld the surprises of the four episodes made available for preview. Willa Paskin of Slate broke the embargo nearly a day early revealing several spoilers. Whereas critics had been somewhat split on the propriety of binge- watching the first season, they were more supportive of the practice for season two. Early reviews were largely positive, noting that the second season had a darker tone than the first. Molly Parker was praised as an addition to the cast. Nonetheless, many critics were concerned at the domineering presence of Underwood, who appears to have no worthy adversaries. Viewership of the second season was many times higher than season one. The season earned thirteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the 6. Primetime Emmy Awards and three nominations at both the 7. Golden Globe Awards and the 2. Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kevin Spacey won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for playing Frank Underwood in season 2. Season 2 of House of Cards was one of the first shows available in 4. K video format on Netflix's streaming service. Summary. In early episodes Frank vanquishes reporters on the trail of a murder he committed in the previous season. However, the drama soon shifts to tensions involving Frank, President Walker, the Chinese government, and the wealthy Raymond Tusk, eventually culminating in a bitter political war between Frank and Tusk. Frank's wife Claire publicly reveals that she was raped in college by a prominent general and pursues anti- rape legislation. The most significant new character is Jackie Sharp, Frank's successor as House Whip, who soon finds herself embroiled in Frank's plans. As the war between Frank and Tusk consumes the Presidency, things culminate in a scandal that leads to Walker resigning, Tusk being arrested, and Frank ascending to the Oval Office. Among the new cast members in season 2 are Molly Parker and Sam Page, while directors include Carl Franklin, Jodie Foster, James Foley and Wright. Underwood, the Vice President of the United States. Season 1 of House of Cards was released in its entirety on February 1, 2013. Betrayed by the. Learn where all 430 episodes of the classic TV Western, Bonanza, were made at, only at. HOUSE follows maverick physician, Dr. Gregory House. Though a truly unconventional infectious disease specialist, he's a brilliant diagnostician who loves the. The fourth season of House premiered on September 25, 2007 and ended May 19, 2008. Having previously fired Chase, and with Foreman and Cameron quitting, House starts. A bus that House was riding crashes. House claims there's a victim on the bus that's dying, but not from the bus accident. He stops at nothing to figure out who the. Detailed Downton Abbey Episode Guides with photos for Season 1, 2, 3 4 and 5 including the Downton Abbey Christmas Specials. Read the Latest Entertainment and Celebrity News, TV News and Breaking News from TVGuide.com.![]() ![]() Robin Wright as Claire Underwood, the Second Lady of the United States. Michael Kelly as Douglas . Capitol Police serving as Underwood's bodyguard and driver. Mahershala Ali as Remy Danton, a lobbyist with law firm Glendon Hill and former employee of Frank Underwood. Derek Cecil as Seth Grayson, a sinister political operative who becomes Press Secretary for Vice President Underwood. Rachel Brosnahan as Rachel Posner, a former sex worker seeking a new life. Sakina Jaffrey as Linda Vasquez, the White House Chief of Staff in the Walker Administration. Jayne Atkinson as Catherine Durant, the U. S. Secretary of State in the Walker Administration. Jimmi Simpson as Gavin Orsay, a hacker and informant for the FBIJoanna Going as Patricia Walker, wife of President Garrett Walker and First Lady of the United States. Mozhan Marn. Marine Private who was sexually assaulted by General Dalton Mc. Ginnis. Kate Lyn Sheil as Lisa Williams, a social worker who befriends Rachel Posner. Elizabeth Norment as Nancy Kaufberger, secretary of the office of the Democratic House Whip. Gil Birmingham as Daniel Lanigan, a Native American casino owner in Missouri and friend of Raymond Tusk. Reg E. Cathey as Freddy Hayes, friend of Frank Underwood and the owner of a BBQ restaurant that Frank frequently visits. Samuel Page as Connor Ellis, a smooth talking media consultant who becomes Communications Director for Claire Underwood. Larry Pine as Bob Birch, a Democratic Congressman from Michigan and the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives. Kristen Connolly as Christina Gallagher, a headstrong aide to President Walker and former girlfriend of Peter Russo. Curtiss Cook as Terry Womack, House Majority Leader from Missouri's 5th congressional district. Constance Zimmer as Janine Skorsky, a veteran journalist working for news blog Slugline. Michael Warner as Oliver Spence. Benito Martinez as Hector Mendoza, a Republican Senator from Arizona and the Senate Majority Leader. Boris Mc. Giver as Tom Hammerschmidt, former chief editor of the Washington Herald. David Clennon as Ted Havermeyer, a veteran Congressman from California and PAC Chairman who is a mentor to Congresswoman Sharp. Elizabeth Marvel as Heather Dunbar, an uncompromising lawyer who is appointed Special Prosecutor in the investigation into money laundering of foreign money via PACs. Tom Galantich as Reverend Thomas Larkin, a minister and relationship therapist. Mark Zeisler as Bill Gallich, the White House Counsel. Reed Birney as Donald Blythe, a Democratic Congressman from New Hampshire. Sandrine Holt as Gillian Cole. Ben Daniels as Adam Galloway, a world- renowned photographer and former lover of Claire Underwood. Kate Mara as Zoe Barnes, an ambitious journalist working for news blog Slugline and former lover of Frank Underwood. Episodes. It's a delicious immorality play with an excellent cast, but the tempo is slow and oddly ponderous—a romp slowed down to a dirge. Johnson was a repeated source for themes and issues. Willimon also commented on the fictional world of politics that the show represented: . The evolution of character is not a game of one- upmanship. It is about change. Souls are vast and so the opportunity to explore ways in which characters contradict themselves and evolve is also vast. I've always thought that the profession closest to that of an actor is being a detective .. We are given clues by writers, sometimes clues they're aware of and sometimes not. Then you lay them all out and try to make them come alive as a character who's complex and surprising, maybe even to yourself. The Maryland State House is not available for rent so the producers made donations to various organizations. Busch, Cynthia, was cast as an extra. She played a United States Senator as the set depicted the United States Senate chamber. However, Chief of police. Cathy L. Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD) revoked the permits that morning. An MPD spokesperson explained . As a result, the production crews did a last minute filming of the desired scenes back in Baltimore. A spokesperson from his office stated that . That's what MPD's decision was focused on. We're not going to be actors. Havre de Grace had been used in season 1 to depict Underwood's home district in South Carolina. The Liriodendron mansion was the scene of filming on August 1. Bel Air police were paid $1. August 1. 3 duties at another filming location. I didn't want to paint ourselves into a corner in the second season. The review aggregator Metacritic gave the season a score of 8. The site's critical consensus reads, . It may be darker, but it's also less heavy. It could be that just as victims of tragedy find it hard to accept that their suffering is random and purposeless, voters find it intolerable that so many of the petty, shortsighted moves by elected officials have no greater meaning than small- time expediency. James Poniewozik notes that . And House of Cards would be a greater show if it had characters who were people more than game pieces. Still, on its limited terms, it's absorbing to watch. He describes the show as a . There's a core mystery and American politics is mocked, appropriately, for being a two- party hustle of recrimination and separatism. Barney was also impressed with newcomer Parker: . Stanley notes that as Underwood's . Cathey for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. President. Barack Obama quipped about his interest in an advance copy of the second series: . I was looking at Kevin Spacey thinking, 'this guy's getting a lot of stuff done'. Sex is about power. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland. com. 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The court room scene where the gun was eventually deemed not admissible as evidence was one of the best scenes in We’re In This Together. It was Ty Jones. The cherry on the top of the scene was Terry Silver (Brandon Victor Dixon) pointing out a clear- cut example of his previous theory of the “angry black man” and how detrimental that supposed phenomenon could be to either side during a court case. Like the sit- down scene in The Kind of Man You Are, We’re In This Together featured a brief meeting of two criminal leaders where one made a demand and the other person acquiesced. In We’re In This Together, it was Ghost that had the upper- hand on Tony Teresi (William Sadler). Serving someone up the same bitter pill that they forced you to swallow must have been a sweet experience but Ghost kept his business- like composure throughout it. He kept the terms simple and to the point so that no animosity was created. There was no gloating. It was a very smart approach and bespoke of the strategist that James . Patrick had always been. James St. Patrick’s businesses and La. Keisha Grant (Alani . If the criminal case dragged on, the St. Patrick’s now merger savings would be drained: court and lawyer fees, rent payments on the apartment, club rent payments, utility bills, cellphone bills, food costs, gas costs, and tuition for two students in a private New York City high school. Patrick and Tasha St. Patrick (Naturi Naughton) were two very smart individuals. Two intelligent people like the St. Patricks would have prepared for a rainy, criminal day like the one they were enduring in advance: they would have bought their apartment years ago and not still be renting it. They would have paid their children’s school tuition in advance for a year. They would have followed that protocol at the beginning of each school year. If anything happened with their finances or cash flow, it wouldn’t have interrupted their children’s education. They would have had a year to figure things out. Patrick (Naturi Naughton) would have returned to college, gotten her accounting degree, and worked for a reputable company. By doing that, the St. Patricks would have always had a legitimate source of income for their family, one the government couldn’t take away, and something completely separate from criminality. Tasha being a working accountant would also have had the added benefit of making the St. Patrick’s legitimacy cover broader and more believable. That is what smart, real world criminals would have done. As I said, the St. Patricks were smart but only so far as the confines of Power and its narrative will allow them to be. Like when Little Finger from the A Song of Ice and Fire novels was translated into his HBO’s Game of Thrones incarnation and was subsequently stripped of much of his intelligence, the TV St. Patricks are dumb- downed versions of what their real world incarnations would be like. Since Kanan (Curtis ’5. Cent’ Jackson) returned to New York City, he had been a contradiction. Kanan was what Ghost said Kanan was in Season 2 of Power, a street criminal that thought small, who was incapable of thinking beyond the street. For a small- scale thinker, Kanan had been a virtuoso at manipulating young minds during the last two seasons of Power. Like Amanda Waller from The CW’s Arrow and Suicide Squad, making people do things that were against their best interests came easily to Kanan. Kanan already had Dre firmly in his pocket, now he had Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr.) through coitus in We’re In This Together. Kanan had been providing Tariq with the distractions that his young mind craved since his father left Tariq’s household months back and then was incarcerated. Now Kanan served up to Tariq his first major sexual experience. Tariq’s mind will be bent on that experience (and all those of its ilk that follow) and his growing gratitude and affection for Slim a. Kanan. Kanan had fashioned himself into the friend that Tariq thought that he needed at that time in his life. Kanan had created a fantasy island for Tariq, filled with camaraderie, petty theft, cash, alcohol, and sexual liaisons. In We’re In This Together, Kanan continued the creation of criminal son Tariq, the type of son that Kanan always wanted Shawn to be. Assistant United States Attorney Angela “Angie” Valdez (Lela Loren)’s discovery at the end of the We’re In This Together introduced a moral dilemma for the attorney. What will A. U. S. A. Valdez do about what she discovered? Because of the recording, Valdez knew for a fact that someone planted the Greg Knox murder weapon in Truth but not who or when. Valdez did know that someone wanted Ghost convicted of murdering FBI Special Agent Greg Knox. The first things that Valdez will ask herself are: why is that? What’s the motive? If someone other than Ghost placed the gun in Truth (and Valdez knew someone did), it could have been an FBI agent or someone that entered Truth under the warrant that turned up the gun. If Valdez told the prosecution what she had found in the surveillance recording, it might alert that person. That placed Assistant United States Attorney Angela Valdez’s into a conundrum: she had to reveal what she had found. The prosecution had already been burned once for holding back / not looking for the tape of Special Agent Knox pulling over Ghost the day Knox was murdered. Valdez would not be stupid enough to risk that again. If the defense, through the discovery process, had the surveillance tapes that the prosecution had, then the Ghost defense team already had the gun / plant evidence but they hadn’t found that section of the recording yet (or they would have used it already). The defense team probably hadn’t scrutinized the recordings thoroughly the way Valdez had. Will Valdez send the defense team an anonymous tip about the surveillance recording? Will Valdez keep what she had found a secret, surmising that it might have been the real Felipe Lobos mole that planted the gun, and try, somehow, to smoke the mole out? So many tantalizing questions. Power: Season 4, Episodes 5: Don’t Thank Me is going to be an entertaining episode regarding this storyline. I didn’t expect Homeland Security Employee Bailey Markham (Lee Tergesen)’s storyline to end the way that it did. What was incredible was that Thomas Patrick “Tommy” Egan (Joseph Sikora) left direct evidence of having committed a murder with Defense Attorney Joe Proctor. Tommy Egan didn’t realize it at the time but he had placed himself into his lawyer’s pocket. Now Attorney Proctor had leverage over Tommy if Proctor ever needed it. If Tommy threatened Proctor, Proctor had the recording. If Tommy didn’t do what Proctor wanted, Proctor could release the recording. If Proctor ever got arrested on a serious charge and needed leverage with the prosecution to get a deal, he had the recording of Tommy Egan killing Ruiz. Joe Proctor could also testify against Tommy in court about Tommy killing Bailey Markham in front of him in exchange for dropped charges, full immunity, and witness protection. Tommy Egan was so smug, glib actually, following Markham’s death, saying how Proctor and he were now in bed together. Tommy was right on that account. What he was wrong about was who was the “Top” and who was the “Bottom” in that bed. Leave your thoughts on this Power We’re In This Together review and this episode of Power below in the comments section. Readers seeking more Power can visit our Power Page. Readers seeking more TV show reviews can visit our TV Show Review Page, our TV Show Review Twitter Page, our TV Show Review Facebook Page, and our TV Show Review Google+ Page. Want up- to- the- minute notification? Film. Book staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and Facebook.
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