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Hello, I'm David Hagelin, and this is a Slate spoiler special for the second season of House of Cards.

I'm joined by Slate culture critic June Thomas. Hello, June.

Hey, David.

And by Slate's television critic, Willa Paskin. Hi, Willa.

Hi.

We're going to be discussing the Netflix series that stars Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, and several other people. And we're going to be spoiling everything that happens in the second season.

So obviously you don't want to listen to this until you've caught up.

Before we get into all of the spoiling, though,

I thought we could just in spoiler special fashion find out what each of us thought of the second season, briefly June.

It can be very brief because even though, like, I'm kind of puzzled by this show,

because even though I remember basically nothing about it, and I, it kind of went right over my head,

I could very, I was very, very happy to keep pressing next.

I mean, okay, yeah, it was a three-day weekend, and it was kind of snowy out, but there

was also the Olympics on it.

It wasn't like I had nothing else to do, and yet I just kept pressing next episode, and I

was done by 8.30 on Saturday.

And it's odd, because, like, sometimes you read a book and you just think, oh, that

was good, or whatever. And then sometimes you think, how did they do that?

How did they make that so addictive?

And I kind of had that feeling with the show.

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