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With the speech delivered, Claire shakes the hand of various service members, and the way the camera follows her along the line leaves us questioning if the threatened attack is about to happen. There’s no physical attack, but one soldier does come at Claire with a quick remark, asking her if she has a plan for this war that “won’t get us all killed.” “Would you ask me that if I was a man? These interactions, both the ones online and the one here in person, seem to clarify that this season is moving in a very different direction.
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I have toured the house for free on two different occasions which you can read about here. This is Doc Brown’s house in the Back to the Future trilogy. In the scenes taking place in 1985, the mansion no longer exists and Doc lives in his garage/laboratory which in real life is the carriage house turned giftshop. All of the above is rooted in House of Cards’ fundamental misunderstanding of how to build its final season. Instead of streamlining the show to the handful of vital characters it has left, it introduces the business with the Shepherds, which is clunky, unnecessary, and largely uninteresting. (I simply don’t care about whether Annette Shepherd’s son is her biological son, or whether she and her brother have an incestuous relationship, because I have just met them.) It drums up conflict with Claire’s vice president.
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Describing Spacey as “predatory” and the set as a “toxic” workplace, the CNN report helped pave the way for Netflix severing all ties with Spacey on Nov. 3, 2017. In addition to removing him from starring or producing in the final season of House of Cards, it also means the streaming service will not release Spacey’s Gore Vidal biopic, which was already in post-production. And it’s clear the show knew this, too, for its series finale is all about that imminent clash of personalities, when Doug signs on to a plot to assassinate Claire and agrees to be the assassin. They talk to each other about unresolved plot lines until it’s time for Doug to try to kill Claire, fail, and be killed by her instead.
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When the home was finished in 1929, it cost a reported $3M, making it the most expensive private home in the city at the time. Master woodworker Sam Maloof and his carpenters designed and built this lovely, thoughtful home piece by piece in his on-site workshop; no two door openings are the same here, and each joint is a wonder of craftsmanship. A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Maloof has had his iconic rocking chairs shown at the Smithsonian; he also designed the chairs that were used on-camera at the history-changing Nixon/Kennedy debates. Visitors can see some of this furniture, as well as the wide-ranging collection of arts-and-craft pieces that he and his wife of 50 years, Alfreda, amassed together.
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While most of the details about the duo’s characters have yet to be revealed, it is said that they will play siblings, an idea that could lead to anything when put through the lens of the show’s dark Machiavellian power-seeking themes. It was a fantasy about the Clintons being as evil as right-wing media has made them out to be, released into a world where politicians regularly wield their power in a way that causes genuine, real-life harm and even death in the lives of people all over the world. The result is that its final episodes feel like a series of plot resolutions that never resolve into anything — especially when it comes to...
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Kevin Spacey has not been cast to reprise his role for the final season. After the allegations of sexual assault came to light the fallout from this was Netflix parting ways with the actor. These scenes are played with the utmost tension and seriousness, but it’s all rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Consider how much time this episode spends trying to touch on the various character arcs it began this season, and how little it manages to do with them.
Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson returned as showrunners for the final season. The sixth season continues the story of recently-inaugurated, Democratic president Claire Underwood (Robin Wright), who faces new threats within and outside the White House following the death of her husband and former president Frank Underwood. Powerful elites, led by wealthy siblings Annette and Bill Shepherd (Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear), are attempting to manipulate and destroy her presidency, while Claire struggles to exert influence and escape her husband's shadow.
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Add in Frank’s death and the fact that the United States has its first ever woman as president, and you can begin to imagine the kinds of people who aren’t too happy about it. The new and final season of House of Cards begins there, as Claire sits behind the desk in the Oval Office while a Secret Service agent details the latest threats against her online. The threats are “four times” as many as Frank got, and their viciousness knows no bounds. “Lots and lots of the c-word, unfortunately,” says the agent before detailing one threat that suggests Claire should be chopped up into pieces and her body parts arranged to resemble the American flag.
Netflix has confirmed that season 6 will be the final season of House of Cards. The show was almost canceled completely but it was actress Robin Wright that argued for production to continue and for season 6 to be filmed. With the direction of the narrative of the story heading where it was, it would be likely that season 6 may have been planned as the final season.
As Doug and Claire trade exposition, Doug admits that he was the one who killed Frank. Apparently, Frank showed up at the residence, drunk and ready to kill Claire, so Doug killed him first. Not because he wanted to save Claire, but because he didn’t want Frank to ruin, you guessed it, his legacy. This “shocking reveal” kind of sums up the problems with this season. Instead, we’re just waiting around to see who will be the last one standing, which isn’t all that compelling. Claire is the one who lasts until the end though, killing Doug and finally ridding herself of all the loose ends.
When Kevin Spacey's firing from House of Cards was announced at the end of last year following the sexual abuse allegations being made against him, the show was temporarily put on hiatus as the Netflix hit figured out what to do next. Jacob joined What's on Netflix in 2018 as a fulltime writer having worked in numerous other industries until that point. Jacob covers all things Netflix whether that's TV or movies but specializes in covering new anime and K-dramas.
If you take the Warner Bros Studio Tour you might get to see some places in the backlots where the show has been filmed but they never open up the sets in the soundstages for viewing. However, if you’re a fan of The Big Bang Theory (and old Sheldon) you can see Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment and even sit in Sheldon’s spot. I grew up a big fan of Hilary Duff and always watched her movies.
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