This House of Cards — Who Would Believe It?
It’s been a couple years since I watched the show “House of Cards”, which shows an unblievably cunning, conniving, blindly ambitious individual, and his equally callow wife, who will do anything to get their way, bar nothing. They eventually become president and vice president of the country, where their bizarre activities behind the scenes not only continue, but get stepped up a serious notch.
I finally got around to watching the fifth season, the first time I’ve watched the show since the current administration assumed power. Prior to this, while it all seemed like it could be possible, it all seemed so unbelievable.
The sad thing that occurred to me, as I watched several episodes this weekend, is — it no longer seems so unbelievable. In fact, it seems most plausible.
I don’t think it was season five itself that became so believable — I think it’s the administration that is currently in power that makes the actions of the fictional president and vice president so believable.
It’s a little too believable. In fact, I almost found myself admiring how knowledgable about how government works the fictional president is. I don’t admire what he does with his knowledge — but, he at least knows and understands how it works.
No fictional program that showed all of what is actually happening these days would have been believed, or believable. It probably would have gotten cancelled in the first season.
Oh, if we could only be so lucky in the reality show that’s currently playing in the district!
