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- Netflix
- Mar 4, 2016
- Netflix
- Mar 4, 2016
Summary The US remake of the 1990s British political miniseries moves the shenanigans to Washington DC. After learning he won't be appointed to a coveted Cabinet position, House Majority Whip Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and his wife Claire plan revenge on the administration he helped elect.
- Netflix
- Mar 4, 2016
- Netflix
- Mar 4, 2016
Summary The US remake of the 1990s British political miniseries moves the shenanigans to Washington DC. After learning he won't be appointed to a coveted Cabinet position, House Majority Whip Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and his wife Claire plan revenge on the administration he helped elect.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
76
88% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
12% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A fast and furious romp through the first six episodes that should keep bingers--and fans--happy.
While Season 4 still has the “Netflix Problem” of being a few episodes too long, it’s tough to say what should be cut this year. Almost every plotline serves a purpose, delivers some kind of rewarding payoff, and it further drags us down in the muck of Frank and Claire’s life.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 409 User Ratings
8.4
88% Positive
359 Ratings
359 Ratings
6% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
7% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 409 User Ratings
8.4
88% Positive
359 Ratings
359 Ratings
6% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
7% Negative
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
House of Cards. Season 4. Big politics on blood. Intrigues inside the White House are spinning more and more and because of this, everything begins to crumble. But not for Frank Underwood. Elections, war, marriage, death, nothing will stop Frank and Claire.
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SEASON 4
Luckily the addition of a few big-name guest stars helps the series regain "the big mo," as they say in politics. Judging by the six episodes I've screened, HoC remains an addictive if not credible political potboiler, elevated by new actors.
There is a razor-sharp focus, as well as a renewed sense of purpose, in the six new episodes Netflix made available to critics in advance of the fourth-season premiere.
House of Cards has found the complexity of its anti-hero but, in spite of its sublime direction, stellar cast, and deliciously dark drama, it has yet to master his brutal bite.
The cat-and-mouse game between them [Francis and Clair Underwood] possesses genuine electricity, especially with Underwood’s chief hatchet man Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) back in the fold and running interference, having survived the tortures of the damned to get there. Yet it’s also on this front where some of the smarter political insights the show has exhibited begin to break down, with Claire veering past Hillary Clinton into something closer to Eva Peron territory, if not quite Lady Macbeth.
Claire is as bad a person as Frank, but she's not as good at the game, so There's less pleasure in watching Wright, whose greatest achievement the past two seasons has been her admirable maturation as a director. Maybe that's what Kinnaman's character will eventually provide, either a worthy adversary or a rising protagonist? It doesn't matter whether or not Frank returns to talking to viewers, but he badly needs something worth talking about.
After the third season debacle Season Four has saved "House of Cards". The Underwoods are back being the Underwoods; sneaky and conniving. Robin Wright has proven to be an excellent director.
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SEASON 4
It's one thing to have a sociopath in the White House but to throw in Lady Macbeth in a power struggle that defies political logic has dimmed the shows power. With all of us knowing how cheap oil is couldn't they have come up with a more cogent foreign policy issue? CBS has already gone down the "Russians are coming" path, does Netflix need to do likewise?
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SEASON 4
What sadly happened with season 4 is what usually happens with shows once people making them understand they will sell no matter what. They become diluted, they slow down.
I watched the entire season in 2 days, the show is still one of the best out there, no doubt. No one can deny Spaceys charisma, or the acting in general. Its top notch.
VERY SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD (imo safe to read for everyone):
In comparison with the other seasons, in the first Underwood goes from whip to vice president.
In the second from vice president to president, after making the president resign.
In the third he is the acting president with everything that comes with it. Still fun to watch. Last part of the 3rd is preparing for the upcoming elections, and the growing rift between him and Claire becomes noticable.
In the 4th season, well, nothing really happens. The show takes some weird paths, that come full circle and mean very little. It ends pretty much on the same thing where the one before it did: before the elections.
To me, that is very disappointing.
You could say that while the story moved forward in all 3 previous seasons, in this one, well, it went sideways.
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SEASON 4
At this stage in the show, frank has been president for too long. What i mean by that is, the story has become one where instead of the underwoods rising to power through cunning, it's one where they stay in power mostly due to inertia and a little bit of cunning that isn't nearly as intriguing as in the earlier seasons. These problems do get a lot more noticeably worse in season 5 but for me they were quite bad enough in season 4 that i did not enjoy watching it. The Barnes storyline peaked long ago and is nigh unwatchable. Stamper's plotline is dull. Only the campaign offers any intrigue and even that feels like a major downgrade.
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SEASON 4
