Barnes goes all succubus in a short, white dress while Russo watches Russo eventually presses Underwood’s face against a window pane shortly before all three of them simultaneously engaging in a torturous quasi-kiss, Underwood writhing in while the real-world surgeon replaces his liver.Īnd yet, House of Cards goes there. Yeah, they only come back in a hallucinatory dream while Frank recovers in the hospital from his gunshot wound, but it’s nice to finally see all Frank’s prior sins come back to haunt him. Peter Russo and Zoe Barnes come back for revenge To be clear, we’re totally anti-murder and will miss seeing Meechum’s generically handsome face, but the assassination attempt provided a much-needed dramatic high-point, the best of which was seeing Underwood’s Chief of Staff Douglas Stamper FREAK THE FUCK OUT!! As Stamper considers his own irrelevance should the president die, he offers his own alcohol-drenched liver as a transplant option and then dooms another man to die by forcing the Secretary of Health to drops another man off of the liver transplant list just to save the president’s life. What a psychopath! Is there anyone who finds Stamper relatable?Īlso, Frank’s hospitalization provides an impetus for he and Claire’s reconciliation, another big surprise this season! It’s about time that someone tried to kill Frank, the King Midas of Ruin, we just didn’t think it’d be the disgraced Washington Herald reporter, Lucas Goodwin! Goodwin gets two shots on Underwood, nearly killing the President and successfully killing Frank’s personal (and bisexual) secret service bodyguard Edward Meechum - where did Goodwin learn to shoot? But even Dunbar wants nothing to do with Goodwin, writing him off as a disturbed paranoiac rather than a true victim of Underwood’s corruption, which of course leads to one of the season’s other huge surprises… He uses the car to meet with Heather Dunbar, Frank’s primary opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination. Goodwin quickly gets released from prison only to land in a demeaning car cleaning job where he’s forced to exchange gay sex for a car. And for more political thrillers, check out these other shows like House of Cards.As if disgraced Washington Herald reporter, Lucas Goodwin hadn’t already been through enough - his lover splattered by a subway train, his reporting team threatened out of existence, his career and reputation destroyed over an attempted cyberterrorism charge - the fourth season opens with him describing sex to his masturbating cellmate moments later, the masturbator threatens to choke him to death. It can be painful to put one House of Cards episode over the other when there are so many good ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.
Vote up your favorite episodes of House of Cards, and downvote any bad episodes that you really didn't enjoy, despite how much you love the series as a whole. Following sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey, which surfaced in October of 2017, Netflix announced on Decemthat the final season of House of Cards would still take place, but without Spacey's involvement and with Wright's character as the new central figure. House of Cards has received recognition from major awards organizations, including the Emmys, Golden Globe Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2013, it won the Peabody Award. The series, based on the 1990 BBC miniseries of the same name, tells the story of Congressman Frank Underwood (Spacey) and his wife, Clair Underwood (Wright), as they plot to attain power in Washington D.C. House of Cards on Netflix is a political thriller that originally starred Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
There are so many good episodes of House of Cards, but which ones really stand out? To determine once and for all what the best episodes of House of Cards are, let's rank every House of Cards episode from best to worst.