Here's the good, bad, and weird of House of Cards, season four. Here in 2016 America, could it be that House of Cards feels almost idealistic, because the worst nightmare it could possibly imagine is a president who murders people one at a time? Strangely enough, that's where we are.īut there's way more where that came from. For instance, when Frank's father's connection to the Ku Klux Klan (he wasn't a member, but he posed for a photo with one) is revealed early in the season, it really, really hurts Frank's candidacy, at least for a blip of a moment. As our real-life political world got wackier, House of Cards stayed the course, and now it feels downright quaint. Plus, a curious thing happened to House of Cards between seasons three and four. Related 5 supposedly shocking moments from season 4 of House of Cardsīut what things! If season three felt as if it tried too hard to invest the show with meaning, season four is totally comfortable with being an incoherent roller coaster, one stuffed full of events, where literally nothing of consequence happens.

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