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After watching 3 seasons (and some episodes from the 4th one) of this show I’m not entirely sure what I can say about it.

It’s a very good show, with very good actors (despite some recent developments) and an amazing plot… but I just can’t watch it anymore. It’s really good, so good that it genuinely gives you some violent instincts. I needed to stop watching it since I couldn’t handle it anymore.

The characters are so evil and hypocritical that they quickly become disgusting, but it’s not a mad kind of evil that you could say is pure fiction. It’s something different, more genuine. The calculated evil and sociopathy that is fully credible. The incredible realism that you can spot here is both the best and the worst thing in the whole show.

Maybe someday I’ll try to watch it again, but not right now. Sometimes, I started watching an episode and I stopped it in 10 minutes, otherwise, I would break the screen. Some episodes I was only able to watch in 5 or 6 attempts.

This show is not the usual action-filled show with the usual tomato sauce that we often call violence. It’s definitely different, more like something that comes from deep inside and it’s absolutely revolting.

It’s a really good show. It has to be, in order to actually gives us these kinds of strong feelings, but it definitely wasn’t made for someone not ready to see how cruel life, and even more-so, other people, can be, out there. It’s a great watch for anyone ready to take in an incredible show and glimpse on a sociopath’s road to success in politics, just not for someone like me.

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