And not just a syringe, but a needle syringe. Yes, in what can only be an attempt at extreme edginess, the writers now have the alcoholic Stamper feeding his demons out of a syringe. Hiring a prostitute and forcing her to shoot bourbon into his mouth with a needle back. Breaking his arm and taping it back together with a wooden spoon and duct tape back. Doing everything he can to stay in Frank’s good graces back. Wistfully gazing at flowers and get-well cards from the Underwoods back. Not just back, but waking-from-a-coma back. From Underwood’s meteoric rise from House Majority Whip to VP to President to his undue influence during his run as VP, not to mention a supernatural ability of getting away with cold-blooded murder, the show is fun to watch but left any realm of reality way back in the first episodes of Season 2.Īnd now Stamper is back. As viewers of Season 2 will remember, Stamper–President Frank Underwood’s insanely loyal chief of staff–was pummeled with a rock by a prostitute who could link Underwood to the murder of a US congressman, and left for dead in the season’s finale.įar be it from a show as ridiculous as House of Cards has become to pull the old soap opera “nine lives” trick, right? I mean, we’ve already seen some really, really hard to believe stuff on this show. One of the biggest surprises in the third season of Netflix’s House of Cards (released in its entirety on Friday), was the fact that Doug Stamper is still alive. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched Seasons 1 & 2 in their entirety, and, say, four episodes of Season 3. Editor’s note: The following article discusses the first few episodes of the third season of House of Cards and contains spoilers.
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