Before Frank Underwood can start haunting the West Wing on this season of "House of Cards," he needs to fill his old job as House majority whip. Preferably with someone useful.
Frank's choice - though he won't be publicly backing her - is Jacqueline Sharp, a third-termer from California with a military background and a spine of steel. She's photogenic, popular, way too green and she knows it.
"You chose me for a reason," she tells him after he suggests she take on the job of keeping House Democrats in line. "I'd like to know what it is."
Criminal Element: The end is near for 'Breaking Bad,' and it all boils down to not-so-basic chemistry.
Walter White treats the world like his personal chemistry set, but when he needed a street name for his criminal alter ego, he turned to physics.
He has relished his menacing nickname. During one of "Breaking Bad's" spaghetti Western-style desert showdowns, he made sure his reputation had preceded him.
"Say my name," he commanded his new business partner, who wearily replied, "Heisenberg."
Daydream believers: 'Mad Men' lets its women change their worlds
When AMC's acclaimed advertising drama "Mad Men" returns for its sixth season tonight, Megan Draper will still be competing with her husband's black moods, whiskey habit and wandering eye - if she hasn't lost already. Jessica Pare, who plays Megan, is fine with that.
Read MoreSheaths. Girdles. Cigarette pants. 'Mad Men' gets the vintage look just right. And on the horizon: Miniskirts.
"Mad Men" returns Sunday for a new season. It's hard to be patient when it has been 18 months since Christina Hendricks' Joan rounded the corner of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in a jewel-toned sheath dress.
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