Definitely not as good as the 1st (WTF is with all the dropped story threads, replaced by stuff that is so much less engaging?) Also, it's pathetic just how easily manipulated everyone around Frank is- even as they're aware that he's fucked them over multiple times, they consistently let themselves be manipulated by him over, and over again, as if they have the memory and naivety of a gnat. It gets.. boring after a while. Especially the President. What a pathetic shmuck. After realizing how Underwood had manipulated and undermined him, and how he had been deliberately fucking him (and his administration) over, he predictably agrees to take back the Pardon for Tusk, and go with Frank's "plan" instead, which is nothing more than more lies and empty promises? How fucking moronic can you be? What, cause of a letter and a phone call? When everyone around Frank is THAT stupid (especially the president, who seems positively brain-dead), it just gets irritating. Also, did the President not see the risk of fucking Tusk over at the last second, and making him testify with no Pardon? And then, he happily gives over the Presidency to someone he knows is an evil fuck? Unreal.
Also, are we to assume the Rousseau/Zoe thread is permanently dropped now? You know, the real stuff? I fully expect next season to focus on Russian trade relations, instead of Frank's murders coming back t bite him in the ass. How convenient that Stamper is dead.. as is the knowledge of most of what Underwood has done. Who's left that knows anything? Nobody. The hooker barely knows shit herself.
