![]() ![]() Season 3 brought radical changes, including a visit from the Russian president and a subsequent visit to Russia to secure the release of an LBGT activist, the repercussions of a drone-strike gone badly. ![]() “Frank” Underwood is sworn in as President of the United States. Underwood then undercuts both, subsequently setting up the fall and resignation of the president. Completely remorseless in his pursuit of self-interest, Francis kills the reporter he was bedding, Zoe Barnes, who was getting too close to the truth, then courts the influential businessman closest to the president and the Chinese businessman engaged in back-channel negotiations. Meanwhile, his equally ambitious wife Claire has ruthlessly fired half of her staff, dealt with her husband’s affair with an investigative reporter and fielded a tabloid revelation of her relationship with a famous photographer.Īs Season 2 opens, Claire develops a friendship with the First Lady. By the end of the first season, having been passed over by the president he helped elect, Underwood undermines numerous colleagues, kills a senator…making it look like suicide…and receives and accepts the nomination for Vice-President. When we first meet the Underwoods, Francis is the House Majority Whip, a congressman from South Carolina positioned to become Secretary of State, and his wife Claire heads Clean Water Initiative, a NGO that she feels is too limited in international recognition. The series is as distinctive as the format. The format established, two episodes/chapters are shot concurrently, each pair having its own director. There are no time/length restrictions on each chapter and no commercials.Įxecutive Producer David Fincher directed the first two chapters, setting the tone and style, which continues to bring critical acclaim. And, as the first Netflix original, it was the first of a new format, in which all episodes/chapters of a season are introduced on the same day. HOUSE OF CARDS, the series that defined binge-watching, revolves around the power couple Francis & Claire Underwood and their relentless machinations to ascend to even more power and amass perhaps more than a little revenge.Įach season has 13 episodes, referred to as “Chapters”…one chapter per card in a suit of playing cards. ![]()
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