Threesome scene - It goes back to what Frank said when he was banging out Zoey. "Everything in life is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power. Claire and Frank both get off on having power and control over people below them. Meachem gets off on being as close as possible to powerful people.

General thoughts - More of the same from S1. Too many subplots that don't get enough depth or attention for my liking. Good but not exceptional TV show.

Stamper - I get the Stamper storyline this season, I just didn't care for it that much. Stamper had an addiction to Rachel. He's battled addiction almost his whole adult life, it's all he knows. At a certain point, he doesn't know how to live without addiction. If he kills Rachel, he kills his addiction and he kills a part of himself. Because he can't ever get over it, his addiction ends up killing him.

I wish the whole Lucas/Jeanine storyilne would have been developed more. Somehow let Lucas and the hacker work together a little longer so they could have had some relationship, that way when the hacker screws Lucas over it has a lot more significance. I just felt like Zoey was such a major character in S1 that her death should have loomed over the whole season instead of just 3-4 episodes.

pretty much agree with ccsuster and zimmer's thoughts.

going into this season the one thing I really didn't want was for the show to move too fast and border on nip/tuck type absurdism and for frank to become president by the end of the season. and of course all of that is actually what happened. but it's still a very entertaining show and given the way it's released all at once it's so easy to watch that i'll def still watch future seasons. season 1 >>> season 2

Probably a stupid question, but where was Doug taking Rachel in the last episode?

Underwood killing Zoe was key, and I was rooting for it hard because 1) I hated her character and 2) more importantly, it was the perfect shark-jumping moment, when the show officially let go of any claim to being realistic. It's a much more fun show when you can watch it as crazyland fluff with a murderer as VP and his sociopath wife--basically a silly, bizarro McBeth--rather than a show intending to in any way play on the same level as the West Wing or whatever.

I don't think it was explicitly stated. The two most likely destinations are "away" and "somewhere she could be killed quietly". It probably doesn't really matter where the actual destination was. In practical terms, it was just a way for them to add some drama ("OMG is he gonna kill her???") and to give her an opportunity to kill Doug and get away to cause mischief at a later date. If they didn't want Doug to be killed, and I am sure this is gonna be important in S3, they could have just had her take off on her own.

I don't think it was explicitly stated. The two most likely destinations are "away" and "somewhere she could be killed quietly". It probably doesn't really matter where the actual destination was. In practical terms, it was just a way for them to add some drama ("OMG is he gonna kill her???") and to give her an opportunity to kill Doug and get away to cause mischief at a later date. If they didn't want Doug to be killed (which is obviously gonna be important in S3) they could have just had her take off on her own.

no