For those who already believe Valentine’s Day is a holiday for the weak-minded—those gormless, sleepwalking fools placating each other with pretty language and store-bought gewgaws, hiding the darkness of their true hearts behind construction-paper cutouts—then Netflix has just the present for you. It’s debuting the second season of House Of Cards on February 14, in one giant, binge-watching lump again. So, you can either spend the day abating your loneliness by immersing yourself in that sort of snide cynicism, or curl up with your own partner in mutually beneficial manipulation, congratulating each other on not letting some schoolgirl’s notion of romance get in the way of what you really want. To get you in the mood, here’s 30 seconds of Robin Wright silently smoking by a window.
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