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"House of Cards" is one of the best-written series that I can remember. I suspected that it was written by someone on the inside. So I decided to search for information on the writer, Beau Willimon, and found this article from the Hollywood Reporter. Beau worked in several DEMOCRAT campaigns before beginning his career as a playright.

(His bio on Wikipedia is worth reading.)

1 posted on 03/28/2015 4:36:38 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

HoC feels too real not to have an insider contributing. DC is just flat out a scummy nest of vipers that is so far outside what the Founders conceived that it’s a wonder the whole thing has held together.


2 posted on 03/28/2015 4:42:46 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Absolutely one of the best written shows. However, I didn’t care for this season. I thought it was a little choppy, like they were going down one road and changed midstream. A couple of times. It was a long way around getting to the ending. It wasn’t as finely choreographed as the first two seasons.


3 posted on 03/28/2015 4:47:51 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I’d always heard it was modeled on the Clintons.


4 posted on 03/28/2015 4:48:45 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I cancelled HBO decades ago when they had kid shows damning hunting and firearms. My kids were not going watch that crap. The only time I had the urge to watch a show on that network was back a number of years ago when they showed Deadwood. Eventually my town library had the DVDs available and I watched them a couple of years late.
I refuse to subscribe to that leftist channel.


5 posted on 03/28/2015 4:50:50 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Thanks for the info. I’ve felt the same that it had to be an insider.


6 posted on 03/28/2015 4:51:10 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

” wilting in the New York heat”

I laughed so hard when I read that phrase.
Eeew Yuckers don’t have any idea what hot weather is unless they move somewhere else.

Liberal Yankees are such wimps


10 posted on 03/28/2015 4:57:21 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Watched the first season. Thought it was well crafted.

However, cesspools can be well crafted. Will not watch any more of the series. The first season’s going queer and murder elements decided me.

I watch television for entertainment. I refuse to view cesspools of others warped lives.


13 posted on 03/28/2015 5:05:49 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Congressman Chuck Schumer, a gregarious Democrat from Brooklyn,


has a Conservative Republican ever been described so nicely?


15 posted on 03/28/2015 5:36:30 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

How could it be Insider stuff if the script is nearly identical to the BBC original?


22 posted on 03/28/2015 5:47:39 PM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

A number of shows in this last season changed the theme from ‘House of Cards’ to “House of Homos”.


24 posted on 03/28/2015 7:03:34 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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