As I play, I imagine myself like Frank Underwood and suddenly my stint as a virtual congressman includes some seedy and sleazy subtext.

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Spacey plays Congressman Frank Underwood, the democratic majority whip.

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Much of the problem is Spacey himself, as Francis (Frank) Underwood, a wheeler-dealer who is denied the job of Secretary of State, and then conspires, with his steely wife, to go even higher.

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