Anyone who has seen Netflix’s hit political drama, House of Cards, knows just how crazy some of the things those characters got away with are. It’s rather unsettling when you think about how accurate this could all be to real life politics. Some members of Congress have even said they enjoy the show for how accurate it is (a frightening thought). I have compiled some of the craziest things to happen in the first four seasons of the show, and here they are.
1. When Frank got away with killing not one, but TWO people.
The “suicide” of Peter was kind of suspicious if you looked at the facts like that he was in the passenger seat of the car and also was halfway out the car because he tried to escape. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Frank killed Zoe in a public location with dozens of people around and nobody even NOTICED. Nobody even bothered to look into these more, except for Lucas and we all know how that one went. It's pretty frightening that Frank also went on to be the President of the United States after killing his way into the White House and also practically impeaching the current president?
2. Literally anything Doug ever does.
Doug kept a girl hostage for what, months, years? Then he ultimately ended up kidnapping and killing that girl and never got caught. This, of course, was after he beat Gavin half to death to get Rachel’s location for the killing. He also did some extremely illegal things by getting Frank pushed up on the liver donor list in place of someone else, who ended up dying because of it. Doug also tried to kill Seth for next to no reason so that had to be the last straw for me. He probably should have just died when Rachel attacked him. No, actually, he definitely should have died then; over literally any other character in the entire show who died.
3. Claire has an affair that Frank encourages?
I was so confused when Claire broke it off with Tom only to have Frank call him back and encourage the union. Claire was gonna divorce him before the whole shooting debacle so maybe he sees this as the only way to keep her? I don’t know but the love in that marriage is dead. There is only power.
4. The members of Congress were so easily persuaded.
Of course there were a few Congress members that stuck to their guns (to which Frank threatened them always), but those people were few and far between on this show. Everything was a backdoor deal or a favor. This is making me feel great about our real life government, considering people have said just how much this show portrays real life.
