Joel Kinnaman is TERRIBLE

As an actor, he has no sense for politics. It was a mistake, oh well. I think he did better toward the end.

I can't stand the actor at all. Hate him in everything he does.

Bad casting choice here - how had is it to find a tall actor??



Silence is Golden and duct tape is Silver

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I've enjoyed the new season but it has some major problems imo. It seems like through sheer force of will, or maybe the force, everyone is able to convince everyone else to do *beep* immediately after they say they won't regardless of rather of solid the reasoning is. Some episodes had scene after scene of discussions/arguments ending in some witty one-liner that convinces someone to change their minds about doing something for basically no real reason.
What the *beep* is the deal with Freddy? When did he decide he hated Frank? Did I miss something? Freddy was a pretty cool character but for no apparent reason he's now an uppity shine caricature angry at the president because he gave him a job.

Has HoC always been this convoluted and dramatized? I don't remember it being quite this camp. Tom Yates and Claire is lame. One of the interesting things about Claire was her mostly asexual lifestyle aside from that one guy, but now shes in this ordinary soap-style relationship.

I also have a hard time believing that Freddy, a guy who worked for many years running and operating/working in a restuarant is somehow incapable of understanding and being a part of the service industry. "I'm just the help to you aint I huh". Well, Freddy, yes, that's kind of how *beep* *beep* works and I refuse to believe you haven't known that for the past several decades.

They should probaly hired an american to act like an american hero. Joel Kinnaman is a half american but he still does have that swedish accent in him.

Well I mean...I believe him as kind of that fake all smiles politician that American people would gush over. So it works.

My problem with Kinnaman and the most swedish actors are that you can hear their accent and it spoils things. The only scandinavian actors I usually don´t cant tell their true accent are danish ones. They are usually pretty good faking being american or brittish.

There's an article that explains why Kinnaman had a hard time transitioning from his last role to his new on in House of Cards and why you can notice an improvement over time. He says: "We were able to work it out... I was promised five weeks in between productions, but then that shrunk to like six days or something so it was really jumping from one to the next. I was a little concerned right when I started out cause I was pretty drained after Suicide Squad and I had done a movie just before that as well so I was coming off of eight months of shooting very intense stuff."