Chapter 73

The writers of this season must have taken a cue from the writers of Dexter. This was their formula: Make a fantastic show for multiple seasons, get the fans thoroughly engaged, intrigued, and personally invested in the characters, plot, and general vibe of the show,....then pull the rug out from under the audience and hit them with the most underwhelming and assanine finale. Give an infinite number of monkeys access to a typewriter, and you would have had a higher probability of a better conclusion to House of Cards. Sad...this was Netflix's one true flagship show, and they blew it!

I have never seen a season or an episode crash and burn as bad as this one. There was so much that could have been done. I won't spoil it but Netflix owes me 8 hours of my life back

I have little to say. This is one of the most boring and disappointing conclusions to a major presentation that I have ever seen. What a miserable mess. There is no suspense. Claire, somehow, manages to run everything. It's as if there isn't a brain in the political hierarchy. I watched this in two days. It could have been worse. There could have been another episode.

What the hell was all that about ? Totally shambolic finale to what once was truly excellent series. Complete disaster.

I watched this episode a few weeks after it was released. Like the rest of this season I didn't care for it very much, the storyline made no sense and none of the characters behaved like any real person would.

After I finished the episode I thought "OK, so that was episode no. 8, moving on... hmm, strange, episode 9 doesn't seem to be available yet. Well it was kind of a plot twist at the end so I guess it's the mid-season break now..."

Didn't think much more of it until recently. "Whatever happened to the rest of the final season of House of Cards?", I thought. Only then did I find out that this episode was the ending of the entire series!

WHAT!?

What the h**l kind of an ending was that? How is this even an ending? It doesn't resolve anything. It doesn't work as a conclusion to anything other than a few of the sub-plots. It only sets up an even bigger mess that might actually have been interesting to watch.

There have been some terrible endings to great series over the years, but this one really takes the cake.