If CNN/Fox News/MSNBC haven’t sated your appetite for stories of voter fraud, media distortion, a fragmented electorate, an initialed terrorist group out of the Middle East and the potential for Russian interference in our democratic process, House of Cards has you covered, but probably not surprised. Is there an opposite of escapism? Get-further-submerged-in-the-muck-ism? There’s enough in that relationship and its changed structure that no contrivances are necessary, but this is House of Cards and Gibson and Pugliese maintain the show’s usual lip-service headline-ripping. It’s juicy to imagine what it would be like to have the two politicians at the top of the ticket brushing their teeth at the same sink, periodically expressing their love for each other and then trying to figure out who gets to speak at a heated negotiation. And second, because once you get past the realism problem, the idea of political and personal space blurring in the White House is a compelling one. Of course, it takes a pretty vicious fixer to compete with Frank, eternally grumpy Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) and the rest of Team Underwood.Īs contrived and fundamentally unbelievable as Frank’s push to get Claire nominated as veep was last season, it filled me with enthusiasm for two reasons: First, Wright has been (and continues to be) the castmember who has shown the most dynamic range in recent seasons and giving her more things to do is smart, especially since Claire has displayed on several occasions that she’s possibly better at the game than her husband is. Frank’s opponent, Will Conway (Joel Kinnaman), is beginning to feel the stress from the campaign, what with it seemingly never ending, and he has enlisted Republican fixer Mark Usher (Campbell Scott) to get him to the finish line. Sitting president Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and unlikely vice presidential nominee and wife Claire (Robin Wright) are capitalizing on the momentum of the partially fabricated terror campaign that they exacerbated at the end of last season to distract from the various scandals that have permanently beset Frank’s life.
The fifth season picks up just two weeks away from the election that was already dragged through the second half of last season and will continue to be important through most of this season, as I suspect the writers Googled “Constitutional election loopholes” and ran with it. Kevin Spacey on 'House of Cards': "We're Scarier Than We've Ever Been Before"
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