House of Cards - Season 3 (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Creator: Beau Willimon
	Actors: Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects, American Beauty), Michel Gill, Robin Wright (The Congress), Michael Kelly
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: September 2016, VOD, 32" TV
Synopsis: The Underwood couple (Spacey and Wright) have reached their target in the political landscape, but have to face new challenges that you would think they would have been ready for.
Review: The series is progressing faster than I had anticipated when watching the first season thanks to a never-sleeping Frank Underwood (Spacey) dead-centered on reaching his goals by any means necessary, and after a decisive second season one would think that so much change in the series (and the objectives of the presidential couple) would make it less appealing. The tone is in fact different and the crowd of characters in the landscape changes (from congressmen to presidents now). I found some excellent episodes at the very beginning of the season: Ep3: Chapter 29 staging a meeting with the Russian president and the real Pussy Riot band, Ep4: Chapter 30 has a strong religious message, and Ep6: Chapter 32 shows the return visit to Russia this time. I also found very tense the Ep9-10: Chapter 35-36 that put Frank in war times. I liked less the debates in the last 3 episodes that contributed to my disappointment towards the season ending. But to be fair this season is still pretty good, even if I don't like too much where it is going. Each episode is still very dense and sometimes even hard to follow for a non-American like me not familiar with the local political landscape and its jargon (what the hell is a causus??). Something I noticed since the first season is that it is a TV-series primarily aimed at an adults audience: it does not contain a single teenager love story although it would have been easily done by introducing the children of any of the politicians, but apparently if a younger audience watches the series it will be for its more mature message.
Rating: 7 /10