We’ve seen these moves and countermoves before: intimidation threats from the president slick but brutal interception from Stamper quid-pro-quo-or-maybe-just-extortion overtures from Claire, delivered with a slight smile. The episode finally revved up the real entertainment engine of House of Cards halfway through when Claire and Frank and their operatives got down to the business of dealmaking.
She’s a locked box, both to the people within the show and the people watching it. While Frank cornily diaried into the camera in seasons past, Claire has maintained an icy, put-together exterior whether on the campaign trail or having late-night pillow talk with her husband. This episode’s early scenes of her creeping through David Fincher’s very favorite kind of setting-a drafty mansion-with unknown purpose (other than to avoid Ellen Burstyn) provided a reminder that Claire’s deeper motivations and thoughts have always been removed from the viewer. Like the one from Claire, gone rogue after one too many insults and sidelining of her ambitions last season. The president, of course, has more immediate threats to face. Might the season end with Frank in a jail cell? Throughout the series, Underwood has had not one but many Swords of Damocles over his head last season ended with the elimination of one in the form of onetime prostitute Rachel Posner, but Lucas’s reappearance and his escape into the Witness Protection Program may be a set-up for some nice symmetry. He was last seen in Season 2, when he was arrested for cybercrimes on the way to exposing the mortal crimes of Frank Underwood. The guy dictating erotica to his bunkmate is Lucas Goodwin, the hapless investigative journalist and boyfriend of the late Zoe Barnes.
#OZ SEASON 4 EPISODE 1 TV#
House of Cards Season 4: rebooted in Oz-land? Less-than-obsessive viewers, or even obsessive ones who’ve had to clear their memory banks as they’ve gorged on other complicated TV universes in the past two years, could be forgiven for some confusion at the opening scene of this season opener. As in previous years, I’m binge-reviewing the latest season of Netflix’s House of Cards, the TV show that helped popularize the idea of “binge watching” when it premiered in 2013.
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