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Originally Posted by mrbaseball
I'm about halfway through House of Card and think it's terrific. Boss was good but was also lacking but the performances were superb. Newsroom? I think I would rather have a root canal than watch that crap again.
I didn't finish Newsroom. What bothered me the most was the writing. It felt so self indulging. Many shows get a little high horsed with their quick, catch phrase type lingo at times, but it seems like that was all that Newsroom was about.
I'm not finished with Boss S1 yet, but so far the only thing inferior to House of Cards that I've found has been the sexual scenes. I think they're really a weak point on Boss, almost as if someone wrote a story and said "we need more sex/sex angles." Whereas in House of Cards it ties in better with the story, even adds to it. It's mildly distracting in Boss.
Haven't finished yet and the final few eps of a show are huge, so I may have been premature to declare Boss > HoC, and of course it is all just my own opinion (curious to hear others as well).