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Room of cards
Chapter 71
Season 6
Episode 6
Editor's note
Photo: David Giesbrecht / Netflix
This HoC the season has become somewhat obsessed with pregnancy. It's abortion, babies and, as we'll learn at the end of this episode, reveal that Claire is pregnant with what she's said is Frank's child I am shocked by all this. Honestly, if Frank has not been photographed, it's pretty weak that the most interesting thing that authors can think of doing with their female role is to put her pregnant.
Claire – technically democratic – lives all the tropes that conservatives use to undermine women: women are too emotionally unstable to assume the presidency; whether or not women choose to terminate their pregnancies for selfish or even arbitrary reasons; that women use pregnancy and childbirth as a way to trap men in their lives. Room of cards Frank was a "democrat" who hated the teachers' union, wanted to destroy Medicaid, "offended" "authorized programs", called for more crackdowns on voters and only pointed to the need for increased control over fire arms. he was shot. Claire's actions – and the way in which they are presented here, both as an ultimate act of wickedness and as a stroke of feminine genius – only further obscure the waters of the Potomac.
It was always more radical for Claire not to want to be a mother – not to complain about this in her public life, and to challenge her self-proclaimed progressive political party to question this decision. Why make him change his mind at the last minute? Just so that she can, what, cut Doug from the will that she probably destroyed anyway? Claire is already rich! She was rich when Frank married him. And Frank had not even started this lucrative career of writing books and speeches after the presidency.
Also: the kid must be the novelist Tom's, right?
And now, let's get back to the plot! (Even when HoC do not worry about that, I do it.) Herald Tom's house seems to have been ransacked and only his dog moaning remains. I am extremely worried about this dog. I hear a man screaming and this sounds like a stranger, but it turns out that it's exactly what Doug sounds when he speaks over a dull roar. Tom was interested in ARCAS, Rachel's death, etc., we all knew that, but Doug also knows that and is in possession of that innocent puppy that Tom protects to the end.
After the news of Claire's abortion is leaked, Melody makes her millennial routine (the baby to the lawyer) and Claire addresses to the nation and tells us that pregnancy does not happen. was not viable. Really, she and Frank were not viable. Once again, we already knew it. Claire then meets her cabinet composed exclusively of women and I am disappointed that they all wear gray. No color keys for these women? It's not as if there were men in the room who would take you less seriously because of that. Mark is cut off from this meeting, but, as he desperately explains to some reporters, it is super normal for him. do not be there. It's odd for everyone to say it's weird.
Janine and Herald Tom is on the run. I adore the fact that TV show reporters all wear the same military green jacket. (I mean, I have one too, A + for the verisimilitude of clothing!) They receive faxes from Janine's ARCAS source. I am impressed by the fact that everyone knows how a fax machine works.
Bill receives a new-wave candle treatment while his sister watches a silk nightgown and a bathrobe, because that's how brothers and sisters dress each other well. I love that Bill is one of those Republicans who blame anyone for saying that America is not the best country in the world, but when he plays his life he takes advantage of medical advances that are not available than in Europe. Annette reports that her "son" still does not take his calls. Bill's answer: Maybe everything is fine! Real night banner for parents, I see.
Jane was found in Saudi Arabia and met Claire, who is now using Hale now. "The people who know us best know how to hurt us," Claire tells her, while assuring Jane that none of the agencies will ever work with her again. The sensual smoothing of the hair turns into intense tingling when Claire explains to Jane that she has made the fools suffer. Jane, in turn, advises Mark to bail out Claire. As usual, the men of this show refuse to listen to women who know what they are talking about.
Meanwhile, Claire is on Skyping with Petrov, who is helping her to clean up. She also bribes Kelsey with a leather purse (and it's better to be full of cash) who is both promoted to permanent press officer and demoted to a person who is not allowed to speak in public until to what Claire says. Claire then meets with FBI Nathan to get updates and, when her reports do not please her, she suddenly accuses her of being too distracted to do her job and reminds her that she knows that He has a little boy.
Once Jane is out of her small hotel jail and is back at the Ring with Claire, she tells a story that begins with Claire's least favorite sentence, "There was a young woman troubled". This young woman worked on Brett Cole (now Congressman Cole), where Mark was also working, and Cole and her had a thing that was heating up too much, so Mark had to make her disappear. He took this literally and told him to disappear; she took this literally and jumped off the Roosevelt Bridge. Of course, the real victim of this story is not Cole's then very pregnant wife or that nameless dead girl, but MARK, who has become the undecided and unsure baby-man waiting for us today.
Jane, very helpless, calls Mark, who still has Tom Yates' body. How?! Where does he keep it? What a waste of storage space!
All right, it's time to take stock: this old man with whom Doug was talking in the psychiatric ward was his best friend with Bill Shepherd since childhood. What does that mean for Doug? Nothing good, judging by the look I hardly perceive under such a face. The shepherds want to cut down both Underwoods; Doug, clinging to Frank's legacy as if it were the only piece of driftwood on an empty ocean, is NOT there for this shot.
Doug is calling Herald To Mr. Doug is also in possession of my new favorite character: Tom's dog. "You lay your hands on this innocent animal and I swear to Christ that I will defeat you," Tom said. My worries are intensifying. Doug plays both sides – delivering Janine to Seth, but not before warning Janine so that she can get all her good information in a secure space. Doug the dognapper gives Tom a key for storing his beloved puppy and, in exchange, Tom gives Doug Janine's article on ARCAS.
What Tom really wants (aside, of course, for the safety of his precious dog) is that Doug explains in the archives how Frank committed a series of murders. Doug keeps trying to twist it so that everything is Claire's fault. "Sometimes you have the chance to charge the right person even if it's for the wrong crime." Wait, what? Tom disagrees and I. Doug did not confess, "I will never tell you that Francis killed three of them: Zoe, Russo and LeAnn. But you already know the truth.
Mark appears to remind Claire that he still has Tom Yates' body. Then, Mark calls Jane, who is in what I suppose is perhaps a Swedish room for help with suicide? These are all clean Nordic lines and persistent despair. RIP, Jane. Death also in this episode: Cathy Durant, who, as Jane predicts, can not escape her destiny determined by Claire.
Claire visit Herald Tom – who, she tells us, has no idea what to do – and explains that Doug is an "illusory liar". Eh, agree. Claire also means that she is not "complicit" in all that Frank was able to "disturb". Again, this attempt to subvert ideas about women as mad and unreliable narratives, always accused of their husband's bad behavior, is not really a success, as Claire is also a crazy and unreliable narrator, and she should be held responsible for her participation in the bad behavior of her husband.
Tom wants to do this properly and send questions to Claire's press service that Claire can answer in a documented manner. This brings us to the most heartbreaking scene of the season / series: Tom ties keys (and a USB key?) To his dog's collar and says, "Be a good boy" while he is being murdered. I am so worried about this dog !! Remember how Room of cards started with Frank killing that dog on the street?
As for the mystery of Duncan's birth: his mother was the housekeeper and his father a kind of overnight assistance. To that I say, Seriously? That's all? What is the point of introducing something so potentially explosive to solve with non-entity characters that we have never met and are not interested in? Why can not he be like Zoe Barnes's secret twin brother or Frank's love child? Also: The Shepherds being the Kochs of this universe, would not it have been announced that there was no trace of Annette having already been pregnant? Would not she have wanted to cover her tracks by legally adopting Duncan from the start? Also, if his main concern was that this housekeeper she The employee was not able to provide for this baby, why did not Annette simply … give her an increase in her salary and help her find a daycare?
Annie wants Bill to say that Duncan is part of the family. But Bill, a brutal snobber of blue blood, says that Duncan is "not one of us". Annie then treated him as a coward and said, "I hope you die." Brothers and sisters!
Back to the oval, Doug growls at Claire. Shepherds can be charged with manslaughter for deaths occurring at the ARCAS plant. Claire takes a brief break to vomit. In accordance with the inviolable rules of television on health and medicine, women who vomit are always pregnant, so. Claire explains to Doug that their marriage contract included a clause guaranteeing that all of Francis' assets would go to his heir, and then prepare a cup of Meghan Markle's belly.
Alas, Doug uses his convenient lack of vomiting to find something taped to the bottom of the desk drawer with his initials engraved in the drawer. In other words: the last thing Frank ever gave him.
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