House of Cards Season 5 Episode 7 Review
Firm of Cards Season five, Episode vii: The Live-Binge Review
A terrorism scare leads to undercover intrigue.
Every bit in previous years, I'm binge-reviewing the latest flavour of Netflix's House of Cards, the Goggle box show that helped popularize the idea of "binge watching" when it premiered in 2013. Don't read farther than yous've watched. (The whole series volition appear here.)
Episode 7 (Chapter 59)
A dirty-bomb scare and a military insurrection—excitement! Well, sort of. Episodes like this validate the mutual criticism that Cards should lean into its soapiness and inject more kinetic energy, rather than aim mainly for slick dread with occasional winks at the photographic camera. The deadening and stately paranoia of this hr did brand thematic sense, though. First, the bunkered Underwoods were facing the prospect of horrifying, ironic comeuppance: the administration who cried wolf finally spotting a wolf capable of killing millions. Then they realized the situation was itself a cry-wolf conspiracy from military leaders trying to undermine the Underwoods.
That some generals would secretly support their commander-in-chief's rival—not Conway just Brockhart—brings dorsum into focus the flavor's larger narrative, which has seemed obscured in the by few episodes. Frank and Clare are actively working to undermine the Constitution. Historically, around the world, militaries have oft intervened in politics to bank check the rising of would-be dictators (and generated a few of their own in the process). As far equally fake-flag schemes go, this anemic attempt to create an "October surprise" in January is actually a lot less insidious than what Frank and Claire pulled on election day.
Still, the storytelling hither—as has often been the case this season—kept viewers a bit baffled. Everyone seemed to take for granted that evacuating D.C. would spell certain expiry for the Underwood campaign, only given Frank and Claire's previous insight that panic merely draws more people to their side, what exactly makes this situation unlike? Why does Frank care and then much nearly the Ahmadi strike during the muddy-bomb crisis? What exactly triggered his revelation about the military conspiracy—merely hearing Brockhart say he'd support insubordination?
Another question a lot of viewers were probably asking: Which of these suddenly central characters—Jane Davis, Nora Cafferty, Max Braegher, Vanessa Morrison—have we met before? Davis in particular stands out as a new and strange addition: a soft-spokenly neurotic deputy undersecretary for commerce in the State Section who has secret sway with terrorist organizations. Are we meant to doubtable her every bit a spy? Or as a symbol of the shadowy industrial-military global network?
Bookending the bunker drama was political push-and-pull betwixt Frank and Claire. In their living-quarters spat, Frank acted openly cynical, seeming aghast when Claire mentioned having given Conductor her "word." The Underwoods routinely interruption their promises, so what's gotten into Claire? On the flip side, Frank'south objection to Usher's Supreme Court pick seemed uncharacteristically abstract, based on some symbolic notion of dominance and on a feeling. (When he pointed to his temple, did anyone else think it might take been more health-related foreshadowing?) Neither party seems to be totally practicing the realpolitik they so often preach, even though Frank gave a satisfying morsel of that preaching when he said, "You and I both know something the balance of the world refuses to admit: In that location is no justice, only conquest."
By the terminate of the episode, the Underwoods were more at peace, having neutralized the mutinous Braegher. Nosotros fifty-fifty got rare feminist musings from Claire, which were met by her hubby saying he'south obviously all for women in combat. He ultimately conceded to her that they need to deal with Usher, with whom they agreed that (as Hammerschmidt explained on CNN) the presidency shall exist decided by Ohio voters. The odds of success in such a head-to-caput popularity contest weren't looking bang-up for Frank, but he clearly believes the tape of Brockhart saying that soldiers sometimes should disobey their leader volition change voters' minds. Usher's reaction when he heard the tape suggests he could exist right.
Previously: Season 5, Episode 6
Next Up: Season 5, Episode 8
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/house-of-cards-season-5-episode-7-the-live-binge-review/528732/
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