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The 1990 House of Cards is the one that deserves to be remembered.
I haven’t seen this, but as far as politics go, I think West Wing is probably on list of Aged Poorly in how massively naive it was about American politics; whereas as Veep is chef’s kiss.
West Wing is competency porn.
Like Star Trek.
Not like Star Trek because I don’t know whether inverting the phase array frequencies would reverse the tachyon field polarity, but I sure as shit know the American public doesn’t pick the intellectual, competent candidate over the folksy, charismatic one.
naive is quite generous, they knew exactly what they were doing
I watched WW before my political conversion, so most of that went over my head; but I think Nima Shirazi and his buddy on the CitationS Needed podcast properly dragged the show for an episode.
Thanks for the playlist.