"Scandal vs. House of Cards"

Frustrated by consistently hearing people around me talk up House of Cards when it is a glossy but deeply hollow show, and equally frustrated that Scandal has not gotten enough of its fair due as one of the best television series currently airing, I wrote an article for my college's newspaper comparing the two shows. Hopefully I can convince you why one show is much better at telling its story, which are essentially the same story of a broken American political system.