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The Legacy and the Lunacy of House of Cards

House of Cards has called it quits with a sixth and final season that zigzags all over the place and ends on a note so abrupt and preposterous that it make shoving Zoe Barnes into a Metro train at a nonexistent-in-real-life Metro station look like the apex of believability. If … More » Source: Ent […]

How Leah Beckmann’s Hilarious Mushrooms Story Became Part of Her Boyfriend Max Silvestri’s Act

Comedians have been talking about their partners ever since Henny Youngman asked the audience to take his wife, if they please, and probably before. But we never hear what these boyfriends, girlfriends, wives, husbands, etc., think about being joked about. That’s not to say all jokes about partners are inherently … More » Source: Ent […]

The House of Cards Team Wrote Their Final Season. Then They Wrote It Again.

The House of Cards writers were in the middle of crafting the final chapters of the show’s operatic showdown between President Claire Underwood and her estranged husband, former President Frank Underwood, when their real world collapsed. Co-showrunners Melissa James Gibson, Frank Pugliese, and the show’s five writers had been convening … More » Source: Ent […]