00:00Hey Naturally Curly World, I'm Grace.
00:02Welcome to Watch and Go, the show where we review things while we do our hair.
00:06Today, I'm going to be reviewing the newest season of House of Cards, which I'm really
00:11excited to review because I have a love-hate relationship with politics and this season
00:16was really interesting to me because of what's going on in our current political climate.
00:21So let's get started.
00:22I'm going to be using some of our Editor's Choice products.
00:26I have DivaCurl Build-Up Buster, DivaCurl One Condition Delight, Weightless Waves Conditioner,
00:32Two Girls with Curls, Spray Leave-In, Mielle Organic Styling Gel, and Virtue Labs Uplifted
00:40Volumizing Wick.
00:41I'm going to go wash my hair and I'll be back to talk about House of Cards after that.
00:48Underwood, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, One Nation, Underwood.
01:10This show actually finished shooting in February after the election and it's really hard for
01:15me to think that they didn't incorporate a bunch of political stuff from this election
01:20somehow.
01:21It begins with Frank and Claire rigging the election so that they can win.
01:26So Frank and Claire, they're up against this cute, all-American couple that's running for
01:33president against Frank.
01:35It's actually a good candidate for president.
01:37It's not someone who's just like out to get as much power as he can, which Frank Underwood
01:42admits to wanting like 50 million times in this show.
01:45You just want power.
01:47You don't actually care about the American public.
01:49Sound familiar?
01:51So somehow Frank and Claire rigged this election.
01:54They do a lot of flanagling, a lot of wheeling and dealing, and they get it so that they can
01:59manipulate the House and the Senate into electing them.
02:02Frank Underwood used to be the House Whip.
02:07The president stepped down and somehow Frank got into the presidency without ever actually
02:12being elected.
02:13Then, Frank is about to be impeached.
02:16By the way, spoiler alert, I should have said that way earlier, but like, spoilers.
02:21But anyways, he goes to his own impeachment hearing, and then he resigns from the presidency.
02:27Because he knows that if he resigns, then Claire can be the president, and he can go
02:31into the private sector, and like, rule the private sector, and she can rule the government,
02:36and they can basically form a dictatorship.
02:39Everything that ever happened in this show is insane.
02:43Claire has an affair, but like, Frank knows about it, because she has the affair in the
02:48White House.
02:49Like, she actually falls in love with him, because obviously she's not in love with Frank,
02:53because he's the worst.
02:54She needs someone she can be open with.
02:56This guy, like, he slept with somebody else while he was also sleeping with Claire, and
03:01at one point, Frank walks up to him and goes, don't cheat on my wife, Tom.
03:06And I'm just like, what kind of?
03:08His name is Tommy Yates.
03:09Tommy Yates is bae.
03:11I love Tommy Yates.
03:12They're laying in bed, and they're being all vulnerable and stuff.
03:17And she tells him about everyone that Frank has ever killed.
03:21All of the secrets.
03:23All of the dirt.
03:24So then, he goes and writes a book about it.
03:28Okay, up until now, I really thought that, like, Claire had some kind of redeeming quality.
03:35And then this thing happened, and I was like, nope, she's just as bad as Frank is.
03:40It's actually really frustrating, because Tom Hammerschmidt is the journalist who's investigating
03:44this thing, and it's like, this investigation is taking too long.
03:48Just figure it out already.
03:50I just feel like the writers were prolonging it so that there would be more suspense, but
03:54I just really want people to know what Frank did.
03:59Claire has never addressed the camera before.
04:02At one point in the season, she turns to the camera, and she's like, she says she's seen
04:09us all along, but she's been unsure of our intentions and ambivalent about the attention.
04:15But not to be mad, she feels that way about most people.
04:20She just says that to the camera, and then ignores us for, like, the rest of the season.
04:24I don't know if I like it when Claire talks to the camera, because the point of Claire is
04:28that you never know what she's thinking, and you always know what Frank is thinking, right?
04:32So it's like, I like that balance.
04:34I don't want to know what both of them are thinking, because then it's just, like, too
04:37much info.
04:38Like, I like the mystery of Claire.
04:41Frank and Claire, in a very new turn of events, start turning against each other, because Claire
04:48is sick of Frank's shit.
04:51I, for one, don't blame her.
04:53I'm sick of Frank, too.
04:55Why does he always get to be president, huh?
04:56Why does she have to be vice president?
04:59I just put Levin in, and now I'm going to put the gel in.
05:02There's also this one scene.
05:04It's kind of like its own little standalone episode.
05:07All of these, like, powerful people in politics go out somewhere, and they basically go camping,
05:13and they do this, like, ritual where they sacrifice to a giant crow, and it's called Elysian Fields.
05:21It reminds me of, like, really weird cult type of things.
05:27They were wearing hoods, y'all.
05:29I was truly freaked out, and it's, like, very out of the blue.
05:33Like, that's how the episode starts, and you're just like, Frank goes there to, like, do politics, I guess.
05:40I don't know.
05:41So, I've finished putting this gel in.
05:43Now I'm going to just plop my hair up here, and then I will put this mousse in, and diffuse.
05:50Oops.
05:52Fine, guys.
05:54House of Cards Season 5 gets a 3 out of 5 stars.
06:05They really tried, y'all, but, you know, some of the writing was really convoluted.
06:11Some of the storylines were extremely confusing.
06:14The characters just get less and less likable as we go on.
06:17Season 5 is definitely about the Underwoods just basically taking over the world.
06:24That is their goal in this season.
06:26It's a whole new level of power that they're trying to achieve.
06:31If you like House of Cards, keep watching it.
06:33If you're new to House of Cards, I would go back and start at the beginning.
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