On November 2, the series returns with its last cycle and after the controversial departure of its protagonist. This will reorganize the closure of the iconic Netflix production.

Frank Underwood is as dead as Kevin Spacey's career. This is a question that Netflix has already answered in advance about the sixth and final season of House of Cards, which will open on November 2nd. This was perhaps one of the biggest questions around the new cycle: how would the show justify the disappearance of its main character?

A little memory: Almost a year ago, actor Anthony Rapp denounced an episode of badual harbadment that would have He lived at Spacey in the mid-80s, when he was 26 years old and Rapp only 14 years old. Quickly, more than a dozen new complaints were added, and the double Oscar winner became the second public figure to fall after Harvey Weinstein. , in the # MeToo era. Netflix chose to send it back from House of Cards, shaking what would be the last cycle of its first big hit, the spearhead with which they conquered the small screen.

The season was already filming and had to be completely discarded. to rewrite without the iconic Frank Underwood at the helm. Thus, the political drama will focus on Claire Underwood (Robin Wright), his wife and who took power and the presidency of the United States at the end of the last cycle.

House of Cards will have a lot to do in just eight episodes (instead of the traditional 13). Here are some of the keys to closing a successful series. Although the following paragraphs only cover the general aspects of the plot or those revealed at the beginning of their new episodes, it is not recommended to continue reading if you are sensitive to disrupters.

The first woman

"In my turn," he said coldly, looking at the Claire Underwood camera at the end of season five. She had just badumed the presidency of the United States after the resignation of her husband and had betrayed him by refusing the presidential pardon that he had promised her for her crimes. At the beginning of the sixth season, Claire is also the first female president of the United States. And in a badist society that, in the real world, would rather choose a star TV entrepreneur than a woman with years of experience, it's nothing. In one of the early scenes, Mark Usher (Campbell Scott), who held the position of vice president, informed him of the number of insults on social networks that he had received this day, as well as the number of death threats counted since the first 100 days of his mandate. : more than any other president in the history of the country.

The President receives the information with the same coldness with which she has helped her husband to commit countless crimes, handling Washington for years. Do not expect Claire Underwood to be a feminist president: she will only use it in her favor when she needs it to implement her program, but outside the public, she will also be relentless. sociopath and dangerous as her husband. Maybe more.

Surrounded by enemies

Although Claire Underwood is far from being a heroine, the season will not be long to present her antagonists: her brothers Annette and Bill Shepherd (Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear), owners of a very powerful industrial conglomerate in Washington. Both have backgrounds in the Underwood family and want the new president to continue to protect her interests. Disagreements make them seem like powerful threats to his power, and even to his life. We must not forget the factor Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly): after the murder, wrongly, the murder of journalist Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), the right arm of Frank is in a psychiatric facility. But he is also one of the few who can darken the president with the information he manages.

How he died?

The funeral of Frank Underwood has already taken place some time ago, at the beginning of the season. And the fact that we talk about the death of the former president, it seems that it is, at least publicly, due to natural causes. There is no controversy or investigation. But it's a house of cards, where covering the dead is the daily bread. And the new chapters play with this idea. Did his wife, the current president, kill him? Was it a blow orchestrated by another enemy to see him vulnerable? Or maybe he just got sick. Of course, the answer will not be immediate.

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