Chapter 73

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

A complete letdown. Do yourself a favor if you read this:

Stop at the end of Season 5, and walk away. Go watch Narcos or something like that. (Don't say I didn't warn you.)

Slapped together ending, which makes you think: "What? That can't happen." and "That wouldn't happen..." scenarios that keep going on and on with side stories that end up with pointless dead ends. A lot of character die offs because they didn't know what to do with them all.

I think it would have been better if all the main characters boarded Air Force One, had a bird strike and they all ended up in the Hudson River and no one survived this time.

What a disappointment.

Not the worst series finale ever, not the worst season of anything ever, not the first time a show went on too long, not the last time a show will go on for too long, but the last time I will ever have to watch this show again fills me with both sadness when I remember how much I loved it some years ago when it was good, and gladness when I remember that's it's over and I don't have to watch anymore of this terrible season.

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 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.