Season 5 must be the FINAL one!

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Season 4 lost me. I gave up in the middle. It was so bad. I loved the first 2 and the third was ok. It just got so dumb.

You guys dont seem to know what makes TV good.

Apart from my wish to see them ruined ASAP, when you know those two main characters will get away with everything no matter how hard or how serendipitous or how ridiculous it happens, then it is not fun anymore to follow it after a couple seasons. The fun is not sustainable this way. Because you know they will eventually destroy everything in their path. There is no suspense. It gets really really boring as it exactly did with HOC.

Plus, this is not scifi or fantasy, this is not Lost. This is a political thriller. It needs to have strong footing in reality but the writers cant maintain it anymore. They are trapped. Until the final season comes, Underwoods need to survive everyhting. So until then, in order to maintain the illusion of suspense, the writers need to keep the A-HA factor, they need to constantly stretch the boundaries of what is possible. And they can only do this so much before giant plot holes begin to emerge and it doesnt feel like anything real.

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OK ill bite: what I'm saying is that i CANT ENJOY WATCHING it anymore. And unless they announce Season 5 as the final season, I honestly WONT KEEP WATCHING. The reason I want this is very simple: I watched it for 4 years now, so I m invested in it, I liked the premise, and although they have been botching it for the last 2 seasons, should they decide to stop dredging it down with any more filler seasons, I believe they can still deliver an amazing final season becasue the main story has that much potential and I d like to see that.

except that it is not entertaining anymore when you know some characters will always end up winning scooby-doo style

12 seasons yeah sure

to further illustrate:
from wikipedia

Todd Van DerWerff of Vox had a mixed review to season four, criticizing the repetitive and predictable nature of the series, writing: "There's no such mystery with House of Cards, where you know exactly what will happen as surely as you do on NCIS. Obstacles will present themselves, but Frank (the hammy Kevin Spacey) and Claire (the almost perfect Robin Wright) Underwood will overcome. What you see is what you get."[81]

The choice to have Frank and Claire run as running mates was highly criticized by some reviewers. Jonathan Holmes of Radio Times wrote that "there are limits to the stupidity viewers are willing to accept, and with season four [House of Cards] may have stepped over the line. Claire demanding her selection as Frank’s running mate is stupid. Moronic. It turns a canny political operator into a ham-brained fish-eyed jar-opener."[82] Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic wrote that "in moments like this it’s good to remember that Cards really, fundamentally is a stupid TV show instead of a particularly cunning comment on political reality."[83]

No, because they don't. There is something cathartic about having the villains of a story ultimately pay the price to bring the story to its conclusion. It has been this way since the being of storytelling. The audience counts on that kind of satisfying resolution in fiction precisely because bad guys don't always pay, good guys don't always win, and crimes sometimes remain unsolved in real life.

Well at least the article that besmirches Frank's rise to power is in print and that Remy and Jackie finally spit in his face for good. Cathy may become a liability as she is uncomfortable from Frank's threats and would rather have him gone than giving into his terror anymore. That shows that they've made some substantial enemies that will begin their undoing and however they deal with it, it won't stop the inevitable.

All the same, I am ready for the show to be done and I don't see how the show can last 8 or 12 seasons as if to imply that Frank and Claire will remain in power for that long stretch of time. I'm getting as uncomfortable with the show as I'm entertained with it the more we're supposed to rally behind this nefarious duo and the lives they've destroyed for their own personal satisfaction, which they've done enough of already. What else would they seek out from power if they can't remain President and First Lady/Vice President forever? Unless they're going to go full Palpatine and build a dictatorship, it's going to end for them inevitably and that path to their downfall isn't worth extending on through the next decade. I know they'll fall because they've already smiled victoriously with each season and the finale must be as operatic for them as it was with Michael Corleone and Walter White. Power will make them explode and that makes a big turnaround for this couple who thought they were unstoppable.