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- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2018
- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2018
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
- Nov 2, 2018
- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2018
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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6 Seasons
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
62
48% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
62
48% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
17% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Every now and then, the nearly overwhelming clutter of characters and storylines gives way to intense, revealing scenes featuring only Claire and Annette. Thanks to the electrifying performances of Wright and Lane, in those moments “House of Cards” is as good as it’s ever been.
While serving up a new batch of so-so operatives (Greg Kinnear and Diane Lane play tech billionaire siblings with a right-wing bent) to vex Claire, the best thing about the final episodes of House of Cards is the return of several ghosts of Underwood administrations past.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 186 User Ratings
3.1
20% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
18% Mixed
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
62% Negative
116 Ratings
116 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 186 User Ratings
3.1
20% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
18% Mixed
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
62% Negative
116 Ratings
116 Ratings
This season challenged my acuity enjoyably. President Hale kills it! Where's Season 7?
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SEASON 6
I thought there wasn't an existing way to end up the show with dignity, and it costed a few episodes and homemade chromakey scenario (as I have never seen before, bad) to it but worth completely the fight. I will miss Claire.
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SEASON 6
Wright’s reserve, unlike Spacey’s bombast, helps keep some of the writing’s mania in check. ... The self-serious drama hasn’t just morphed into a Ryan Murphy fantasy sequence; it appears to have thought more holistically about what promoting women should actually look like. ... Generally speaking, the show feels knowingly ludicrous, so in on its own jokes that it can occasionally transcend them.
There's no escaping the awkwardness that surrounds permeates this sixth and final season -- an inevitable byproduct of having to shuffle the deck, creatively speaking, after discarding one of its aces.
The performances are excellent, maybe better than ever before. But Cards has always been a show whose plot contortions could confuse and whose incremental intrigue could bore, and those problems are worse now that everyone seems to be whispering. There are interesting ideas at play, though. ... Unfortunately, it isn’t until more than halfway through the eight-episode season that Claire’s big plan becomes clear.
Robin Wright is many things, but possessed of a light touch she is not. Her grim addresses--to the camera, and to anyone within camera range--are steely and unceasing, with very little variation in tone or emotion. It doesn’t help that the dialogue--for nearly every character, but especially for Claire--is stilted. ... The show has gotten rid of its biggest troublemaker without replacing him with new trouble that would be more entertaining.
The story of Season 6 just doesn’t cohere; it barely even tracks well enough to summarize. In a way, the total breakdown is sort of beautiful; it’s like watching the story collapse in upon itself, a deserted building, carefully demolished.
Robin Wright does a great job of taking the complete reigns of this horse, the same way that Claire Underwood takes Frank's presidency and ramps it up to 11. House of Cards does a great job of wrapping up character arcs and plots while not evening having to show what will come next.
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SEASON 6
It just unsuccessfully tries to tie the loose ends that the Kevin Spacey´s Francis Underwood sudden departure caused and with that misses most of the important things that made the plot interesting and great, it goes from shocking scenes that move you to important things happening offscreen and the pace being hurried because of the lack of arguments in the plot to justify why it ended like this so it lacks a good structure and doesnt have much congruence, all of these things are clearly reflected in the number of episodes on the season going from 13 in all previous seasons to 8 episodes in this one, it makes you realize Robin Wright´s Claire Underwood on its own doesn't hold on to make the tv show as great as previously besides being the most important character since a season before, and what seems to be the thing that makes it all easier to swallow is Michael Kelly´s Doug Stamper with the character staying true to its self at first unlike other recurrent characters from previous seasons but the plot makes its end the most disappointing of them all in my opinion.
It saddens me to see my favorite Netflix original series go from outstanding to disappointing and for reasons that had nothing to do with the show on itself.
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SEASON 6
The 6th season was absolutely not a series that began on 2013. The whole story was around the character of Francis and they removed it just as easy as they could. I have to mention that this thing caused to destroy the whole series. Maybe it was better to ignore making the last season.
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SEASON 6
What a terrible ending to a great show. The men vs. women **** is overplayed to the extreme when we all know most people in power, men or women, don't care much about gender.
Pathetic writing. Based on that I'd give it a 0.
But the acting and technical aspects are still very strong.
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SEASON 6
