So unfortunate that this epic series had to end with such a weak season. Claire had so many possibilities which could've transform to interesting season or even multiple ones. Even her negotiations with Petrov could've been grounds for many more good things ahead. Instead we got to see most of the people killed off... Even the final episode fell short. I am just dissapointed, really dissapointed.
The worst ending and season ever!
I just can't. Weak writing that tries to capture some of the novelty of seasons past but delivers something hackneyed instead. Claire's monologues come off as desperate pleas to legitimize a season that just shouldn't have been. You ask if I miss Francis? Yes. Yes I do.
It was clear even in the earlier seasons that HOC wasn’t aspiring for gritty realism, but was just here to kind of turn up the silliness of DC politics with a huge dollop of campiness, shot with the pristine clinicality of Fincher. But as with anything there is always a limit, and clearly that limit has been breached. This season has to be an absolute culmination of it with the show runners scrambling to find any semblance of a plot, a job made doubly hard with the Spacey debacle.
This is easily the worst season of this show. This is my favourite show, and this season betrays everything that came before it. Seasons 1-3 were absolutely fantastic pieces of television, season 4 was excellent in a different way, and season 5 was still quite good in its own way, even though it was most certainly a different show. Season 6 is a different show yet again, and it is not just because Frank is no longer a character on the show.
The writing is bad and the pacing is bad. There is no more believability like there was in seasons 1-4. At least the acting is still top-notch (that's the one saving grace the show has). At the start of the season, I felt like I was watching some sort of mystery show rather than a political drama.
Doug was the best thing about this season. I thought that Claire would have been, as she has always been arguably the best part of the show, however, this season just has her going completely out of character. There are some good flashback scenes to her childhood, and those had me intrigued, but unfortunately they were never really followed up on.
Everything that worked this season was never really picked up on.
I must say, although my review of this season is mostly negative, I do say all of this in relation to House of Cards as a whole. I believe that if I am looking at this season as a stand-alone season of television, it most certainly isn't terrible, but rather it's actually quite entertaining and enjoyable. The issue comes when you step back and realise that this okay season of television is following on from 5 of the best seasons of television ever made.
I understand the writers did their best to end the series without Spacey but man, it was so bad and unfinished?
Doug's role was completely out of place and felt useless.
when i was younger, i used to hear that "if you're gonna do something badly, without giving it any importance, without the urge to do it, you better not do it". I say that because this season seemed to me to have been made just for the contract completion, without expanding the atmosphere of the story or at least building a landing strip so that this fiction could reach its end with all the pomp which its begining had. There are several mistakes which turned one of the biggest series produced by a streaming service into a mere amateur draft, and one of them is not having thought of a correct chronology so that we would know better how Claire's new adversaries arrive at the story; we're just introduced to them, while they themselves are very devoted to Francis, repeating his sayings as if we (the viewers) had already seen Francis create this collusion against Claire. And don't get me wrong, i love Robin Wright and Claire's struggle to gain her autonomy after years of serving as an enzyme for Francis to reach new heights. However, here Wright often seems to just follow the script without as much dedication as before; and could we blame her for that? Of course not. And that fake pregnancy belly? Ok, better to avoid commenting on it. The series could've been considered finished shortly after Spacey's crimes were exposed. Even without the fundamental piece of this story, it'd be possible to think of a new direction for its course to follow, without relying on a mystery game, on ambitious strategies created in vain, or merely a dialogue between some characters and the viewer, because Francis was far beyond that, there was perseverance and commitment, pragmatism and fear in his eyes at the same time he lacked the vulnerability, empathy and humanity to deal with the cards in this political deck. It's agonizing to follow this season in some ways, but the 8h or 8 episodes of dramatic confusion, vague suspense and mystery, and lack of effort to complete the fabric of what could've been a great story as a whole, came to an end.
There. No more pain.
I agree with others that this 6th season was awful in parts. The ending let me down as well. Bummer!
What a great show, what an epic fail at the last season!
Shout by Ricardo AlbuquerqueBlockedParent2018-11-10T20:04:37Z
waste of time.... don't watch