House of Cards TV Series 2013 2018

Table Of Content

• House of Cards Recap: We Need to Talk About What Happens in Episode 4
• Other popular TV shows starring Robin Wright
• Upcoming Drama TV shows
• Episode list
• Our guide to the best movies and TV shows streaming online, updated daily.
• Let’s Talk About the Crazy Twist in House of Cards Season 4
• Sign up for the Rotten Tomatoes newsletter to get weekly updates on:

Then, Tom’s article goes online and everything crumbles. Phones in the White House are ringing off the hook. Seth is trying to figure out how the hell they’re going to spin the story. Meanwhile, Jackie and Remy are looking happy, ready for a vacation. The Conways are pretty giddy too, watching as the Underwood campaign totally derails.

House of Cards Recap: We Need to Talk About What Happens in Episode 4

As chilling as that last moment is, it still seems like this season of “House of Cards” would have felt more focused and satisfying if it had ended after episode 10, with Claire and Frank triumphing at the Democratic National Convention. That would have been a too-happy note for a series as dark as this, for sure, but it would have put a cap on the narrative at a logical place and at the moment when the season reached its peak from a quality standpoint. These final three episodes have felt a little tacked-on and less structurally sound, as if they themselves were built using a deck of flimsy cards. Apple TV+'s delightful sci-fi comedy The Big Door Prize is back with its highly-anticipated second season, and three episodes in, its already clear the potential is massive.

Other popular TV shows starring Robin Wright

Of course, Frank and Claire have a plan, and it’s potentially more sadistic than ever. When Frank stares out the window and says that he’s scared, that they’re in serious trouble now with the election only a few weeks away, Claire responds by completely going for broke. She thinks they need to create absolute chaos. “I’m done trying to win over people’s hearts,” she says, and Frank, who barely has a heart, agrees.

House Of Cards: Season 4, Episode 8 – Chapter 47 Review TV Show - Empire - Empire

House Of Cards: Season 4, Episode 8 – Chapter 47 Review TV Show - Empire.

Posted: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Upcoming Drama TV shows

Within the framework of “House of Cards,” she shatters a glass ceiling. A show that’s once again this untethered from keeping core characters around can wring genuine tension to Underwood’s health status. The question is what the show becomes if he succumbs.

Episode list

‘I don’t like children’, he spits in an acrid drawl. The fourth season of the American television drama series House of Cards was announced by Netflix via Twitter on April 2, 2015. In its fourth season, House of Cards is proving that it’s gotten a new lease on life—by almost taking the life of its protagonist. “War, fear, brutal, total,” he says, that menacing grin taking over his face.

Our guide to the best movies and TV shows streaming online, updated daily.

That leads to the final scene in the Situation Room, which is truly disturbing. Frank insists that everyone watch as the terrorists cut the throat of Jim Miller in a video that’s being broadcast all around the country. They want the American people scared because it benefits them. Back in Virginia, if that’s where Claire truly is, the First Lady/potential future Vice President is trying to convince Ahmadi to go ahead with her plan. She tells him that he has a chance to do good for his country. Ahmadi doesn’t believe her though, and as he says, his family has only ever known violence and destruction because of the U.S.

First, Claire is in charge of readying Ahmadi for a potential call with the terrorists. She’s holed up with him in a government safe house in Virginia, offering him a shower and fresh clothes. It’s all part of a plan to get Ahmadi on their side, to get him to tell the terrorists to let the Millers go.

House of Cards Season 2 Review: Episodes 1-3

But now in season four, Frank and Claire become even greater adversaries as their marriage stumbles and their ambitions are at odds. In an election year, the stakes are now higher than ever, and the biggest threat they face is contending with each other. House of Cards retains its binge-worthiness by ratcheting up the drama, and deepening Robin Wright's role even further. Conan O'Brien Must Go is part-travelogue, part exercise in chaos theory.

Let the mother and daughter go and they can speak to Ahmadi, or else their conversation ends. Frank gives them 10 seconds, and the terrorists refuse to reply. The season 4 finale starts with a pretty great cold open, as ICO leader Ahmadi is shackled, hooded, and dragged out of captivity while tympanic drum rolls ripped straight from Hannibal‘s sound design work to create serious tension. The hostage crisis is about to come to a head, and the cold open assures us it’s going to be intense.

Having beaten all of his rivals, almost no one in his sphere seemed even worth engaging with; the season’s only interesting twists (the death of Rachel and the end of his marriage) were external to him. Plus, his new office conferred a bit of dignity on even the greatest charlatan who occupied it; House of Cards was too Presidential. What’s curious is just how relatable the Underwoods’ marriage really is. The difficulties that they encountered are familiar to most people, pressures of work, difficulty with family (particularly ancient in-laws) and a natural fading of the original spark. Marriage counsellors often recommend that couples seek the things that first brought them together, a shared interest, familiar places and so on.

The N.S.A. demands that Aidan MacAllan’s firm hand over their data, which seems likely to expose the fact that the president has been using it illegally to boost his campaign. And perhaps most damningly, Tom Hammerschmidt’s in-depth Washington Herald piece on the shady dealings that propelled Frank into the White House finally hits the Internet and newsstands. For much of last year’s third season, Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey) seemed melancholic and adrift.

Also, when you know you’re right, there’s a different kind of resoluteness that happens to a person. Claire puts Ahmadi in front of a camera and the White House connects him with the terrorists. He initially asks them to let James Miller go, but then he does a quick turn. He shouts at the camera, telling them to get the video out there to the media and to kill James Miller if necessary. It’s a huge backfire, as the video makes its way to the media and the crisis escalates.

House of Cards, in its first, best season, was the sort of show where the table could get entirely reset suddenly and shockingly; we’re back there now, and it’s as thrilling as it was then. The most important thing this finale does is to again demonstrate Claire’s strength and resilience. Earlier this season, Frank told his wife to find her steel. By season’s end, she’s not only found it, she’s able to use it when her husband appears resigned to their defeat. There’s a point in this episode where everything appears to be crashing down around Frank. The effort to rescue James Miller, the last hostage still being held by those American ICO sympathizers, goes south, as does the attempt to use captured ICO leader Yusuf Al Ahmadi, to persuade the captors to let Miller go.

So I don’t think he ever let go his desire to see this through. He found the most interesting way to get me back in and get me back out. The character’s return, coupled with a certain ominous S4 teaser, suggests that this may in fact be the season Frank Underwood’s murderous past catches up with him. We quickly learn that Lucas’ randy roomie is his ticket out of the pokey. And sure enough, by the end of the opening hour, he is once again a free-ish man.

Picking up where the last episode left off, Frank takes control of the call. The terrorists try to get Conway on the line, but Frank is forceful. He tells the captors to let all three Millers go in exchange for the opportunity to speak to their leader, Ahmadi. The terrorists refuse and Frank gives them one last offer.