Watching Revolution and House of Cards

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It's definitely interesting.  It's been a while since I saw the British miniseries version, but more is coming back to me as the show goes along.

I have to say that comparisons to Profit are presenting themselves and giving me serious nostalgia for that most brilliant of shows (after all, they're both Richard III based, and both include direct address to the camera and a cast of ethically questionable folk).  Kevin Spacey is good, but Adrian Pasdar's eeriness when he spoke to the camera is still beyond compare.  And I just had more evil fun watching Profit, and the more evil fun I had, the more complicit I felt in the all the terrible things that happened- which is generally the purpose of direct address.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it and all, but when I finished the Profit pilot I thought- this is television at it's best.



I've only seen one episode so far, which is too early to make a fair judgement, but I just want to say how hard it is to imagine that this came from the writer of the SPN pilot.  I mean, it isn't bad, but I'm a little amazed at how much less good it is.  Has Kripke's writing gone downhill or is the atmosphere, acting, and smaller canvas of SPN (only two major characters to introduce) that much better suited to his style?

And Charlie.  Ugh.  This character archetype, whatever the setting of the story or the gender of the character, is consistently annoying and yet it crops up time and time again.