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House of Cards

House of Cards

2013 - 2018
Drama
TV Series
51m
A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. (imdb)
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Created by:

Beau Willimon
Beau-Willimon
7 total credits
Beau Willimon has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Ides of March, House of Cards, Mary Queen of Scots and The First

Directed by:

James Foley
James-Foley
19 total credits
James Foley has 19 credits at Criticker, including: Glengarry Glen Ross, House of Cards, Fear, Confidence and Perfect Stranger
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David Fincher
David-Fincher
24 total credits
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007), Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his 2010 film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe for Best Director... (Wikipedia)
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Carl Franklin
Carl-Franklin
38 total credits
Carl Franklin has 38 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, Mindhunter, Out of Time, The Leftovers and The Pacific
,
Alik Sakharov
Alik-Sakharov
15 total credits
Alik Sakharov has 15 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Witcher, Black Sails, Marco Polo and Gypsy

Writers:

Andrew Davies
Andrew-Davies
47 total credits
Andrew Davies has 47 credits at Criticker, including: Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, House of Cards, Pride and Prejudice and The Three Musketeers
,
Beau Willimon
Beau-Willimon
7 total credits
Beau Willimon has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Ides of March, House of Cards, Mary Queen of Scots and The First
,
Michael Dobbs
Michael-Dobbs
6 total credits
Michael Dobbs has 6 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, House of Cards, To Play the King, The Final Cut and House of Cards: Chapter 1
,
Kate Barnow
Kate-Barnow
3 total credits
Kate Barnow has 3 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, In the Evening and Orange

Starring:

Kevin Spacey
Kevin-Spacey
76 total credits
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999)... (Wikipedia)
,
Molly Parker
Molly-Parker
58 total credits
Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood... (Wikipedia)
,
Neve Campbell
Neve-Campbell
45 total credits
Neve Campbell has 45 credits at Criticker, including: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Wild Things and The Craft
,
Michael Kelly
Michael-Kelly
36 total credits
Michael Kelly has 36 credits at Criticker, including: Unbreakable, Dawn of the Dead, Man of Steel, Man on the Moon and Now You See Me
,
Robin Wright
Robin-Wright
50 total credits
Robin Wright has 50 credits at Criticker, including: Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride, Unbreakable, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Blade Runner 2049
,
Jayne Atkinson
Jayne-Atkinson
15 total credits
Jayne Atkinson has 15 credits at Criticker, including: Free Willy, House of Cards, Blank Check, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home and Baby Ruby
,
Derek Cecil
Derek-Cecil
14 total credits
Derek Cecil has 14 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Outsider, Haeckel's Tale, The Tomorrow Man and The Listener
,
Mahershala Ali
Mahershala-Ali
31 total credits
Mahershala Ali has 31 credits at Criticker, including: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Moonlight, Green Book and The Place Beyond the Pines
,
Paul Sparks
Paul-Sparks
31 total credits
Paul Sparks has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Mud, House of Cards, Rachel Getting Married, The Greatest Showman and Edge of Darkness
,
Nathan Darrow
Nathan-Darrow
6 total credits
Nathan Darrow has 6 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Wizard of Lies, Black and Blue, Stranger in the House and Yolk
,
Boris McGiver
Boris-McGiver
15 total credits
Boris McGiver has 15 credits at Criticker, including: Taxi, House of Cards, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Point Blank and Teacup
,
Jeremy Holm
Jeremy-Holm
12 total credits
Jeremy Holm has 12 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Block Island Sound, Brooklyn 45, The Ranger and Silo

Franchise:

House of Cards

Genre:

Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English

House of Cards

2013 - 2018
Drama
TV Series
51m
Avg Percentile 66.16% from 1966 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Rated 09 Sep 2015
50
38th
What started out as a fairly intriguing series, rapidly devolved into a melodramatic soap opera with some incredibly unlikable characters. Spacey and Wright are both phenomenal, but this wore out its welcome quickly. The creators of HoC always lean towards camp whenever possible and... I'm just over it. I never want to see this show again, honestly. It's just exhausting and so conceited, like the creators think it is is high-brow television but in reality it is only masquerading as such.
Rated 25 Apr 2019
41
39th
watchable
Rated 07 Feb 2017
75
61st
Watch 'Boss' before you rate this.
Rated 26 Sep 2015
4
44th
Like The West Wing with all warmth, humor, and humanity removed. I'll stick with The West Wing, thanks.
Rated 20 May 2025
75
79th
S1-S5. Gets a little weaker every season until S6 when it suddenly drops below every conceivable metric so i wont count that one. The biggest problem with HOC imo is that there’s not much development in its main characters. Frank Underwood barely has an arch. I wish he would take his takeover of the entire republic farther, instead of fighting small fights in a small political circle. An Underwood goes full Saddam Hussein arch would have been a spectacle and truly a great development.
Rated 23 Mar 2025
50
23rd
The first couple of seasons are around 90/100, and you can and should watch those as a standalone show. The next few seasons still work, everything works while Spacey is in the show. The last season, when Spacey got cancelled and was not in the show, is abysmally bad. So bad that watching anything past s02 is not worth the time.
Rated 05 Mar 2025
85
84th
The show was easily a 95+ the first few seasons. It was already getting convoluted before the Kevin Spacey controversy kicked up. It wasn't even worth watching without him, he was phenomenal in this role.
Rated 13 Jan 2025
79
77th
S1: 85, S2: 80, S3-5: meh
Rated 10 Dec 2024
65
58th
Political nastiness and manipulation are fun to watch, but Kevin Spacey, and later, Robin Wright Penn, are the only real reasons to watch this. It ended up going on much too long, leaving itself open to a lot of unevenness along the way.
Rated 15 Aug 2024
65
22nd
Two episodes only
Rated 25 May 2024
79
60th
politics is cool. drama and murder parts suck
Rated 19 Feb 2024
40
19th
The first season promises a tight and focused plotline, gradually revealed to be quite the opposite. Most of the situations are contrived, and their real meaning and significance is completely irrelevant, often feeling as though the writers are exploiting that ever present x-factor in politics to get away with murder. It remains moderately interesting, primarily because of the strong characterisation and performances from a star cast. This couldn't help but be slick with this team behind it.
Rated 25 Jan 2024
68
36th
S1: 80, S2: 75, S3: 65, S4; 70, S5: 48
Rated 03 Jan 2024
60
20th
Kinda ironic how the quality fell like a house of cards
Rated 03 Aug 2023
7
61st
Turns rather outlandish for no reason while keeping a straight face. It somehow works in spite of itself, as long as you don't take it seriously.
Rated 19 Mar 2023
85
90th
Acting - 23/25 Pace - 19/25 Direction - 21/25 Plot - 22/25
Rated 24 Dec 2021
75
30th
First few seasons were outstanding, last few were dreadful.
Rated 24 Nov 2021
84
33rd
This is like the BBC Sherlock but with the bad parts ten times worse.
Rated 01 Nov 2021
59
26th
Just watch the first season. Every episode after that can be summed up with "Oh no, this happened...But I had already planned for that to happen! I'm so delightfully Machiavellian!"
Rated 26 Jul 2021
87
82nd
Game of Thrones but American politics? Yes please. This is slick, dark, and fun throughout. Robin Wright is my favorite performer here, being more slippery than even Kevin Spacey's iconic Frank Underwood, which Claire as a character definitely needs to be compelling. Season 3 takes a downward turn, as it cannot seem to kill off subplots that don't do a whole lot of impact to the main arc quickly enough; however, season 4 really ramps up the intensity right back to where it was earlier.
Rated 26 Jun 2021
5
7th
I don't like prestige shows. I liked this one slightly better than the others because at least it doesn't have a lame, twangy blues-country-rock theme song.
Rated 19 Apr 2021
60
17th
I've tried watching this twice now, and both times got bored and uninterested around seasons 3 & 4 and gave up. Most likely will never try to finish it again. The first season was strong, but after that it became an unfocused mess that was more interested in having soap operaesque dramatic high points than on making a salient commentary on American politics, or even developing the characters any further than they already were in the first couple seasons. Probably should've ended after Season 2.
Rated 13 Apr 2021
60
16th
Strong first season (score 84), the rest is bullshit.
Rated 19 Feb 2021
70
34th
First seasons are pretty good. Later seasons fall apart. And learning that Kevin Spacey is a child molester in real life, ruins the show.
Rated 18 Jan 2020
65
23rd
Gripping political drama for the first few seasons. Too much gratuitous sex, as with many "adult" Netflix shows.
Rated 16 Dec 2019
66
63rd
Undeniable quality, but I lost interest pretty quickly.
Rated 12 Oct 2019
80
86th
S1:90 S2:90 S3:85 S4:85 S5:85 S6:50
Rated 08 Jun 2019
70
60th
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Rated 11 Mar 2019
3
11th
The first season is promising, but it never becomes what it should have become. Why did I watch all of it again? Also ugh the last three seasons.
Rated 09 Mar 2019
77
69th
I lost interest before the end of the first season. However, I did enjoy rooting for Kevin Spacey up until he became irredeemable in my eyes. After that point, I can't empathize, and I lose interest.
Rated 16 Dec 2018
92
93rd
without kevin spacey - 62
Rated 03 Nov 2018
45
36th
Starts of great but declines in quality for every season. Season six is just a rehash of the previous 5 seasons without spacey and with a very bizarre ending.
Rated 26 Sep 2018
78
31st
First season 92/100, but in the middle of the second season, deteoriation from politics drama to a mediocre thriller (64/100). Stopped watching in mid-season.
Rated 20 Aug 2018
74
21st
Somewhat interesting season 1, then it falls off a cliff
Rated 04 Mar 2018
40
10th
Started okay, but it got much worse after season 1.
Rated 16 Jan 2018
41
5th
Banal and boring.
Rated 19 Nov 2017
80
58th
First 2 seasons are really good, but the rest of the seaons are starting to drag with every season.
Rated 08 Nov 2017
5
96th
Seasons 1 thru 5 are hot. Season 6 is hot trash.
Rated 14 Aug 2017
70
76th
The first 2 seasons are absolutely fantastic, after that it gets bogged down with its own success and the unclear direction it wants to go.
Rated 04 Aug 2017
60
58th
This only works as well as it does because of Robin Wright.
Rated 24 Mar 2017
65
30th
Really takes a plunge downward late in season 2. Just watch the first season and do yourself a favor and stop watching afterwards.
Rated 13 Feb 2017
80
74th
İlk sezonun hatırına
Rated 11 Feb 2017
57
52nd
interesting skullduggery at times but enough interest to make me watch the next 3 seasons? Nah
Rated 04 Feb 2017
78
74th
An incredibly strong first season and then it begins to trail off, with the later seasons being flat and boring
Rated 30 Jan 2017
89
93rd
Fabulous!
Rated 22 Oct 2016
60
62nd
Rating's just for the first 2 seasons.
Rated 28 Apr 2016
14
72nd
W4E1P2S1V1M1A2R2. Still have a lot to get through, and season 3 started to drag, but Season 1 was masterful. If Sorkin and Nolan had a baby, they'd have written this.
Rated 23 Apr 2016
80
79th
s02
Rated 08 Apr 2016
83
66th
Man, House of Cards really lost a step in season 2 and season 3, but finally in season 4, it started to get back to some of what made it successful. The focus went back to the characters, particularly their fallibility. With a focus on Claire (Robin Wright) in the fourth season, the writers really fleshed out her character, which was the highlight, next to them jumping head first into the absurd. Not exactly pertaining to the season, but I cannot wait to see Mahershala Ali (Remy) in more things.
Rated 06 Apr 2016
84
95th
Man what do I love thie serie.
Rated 03 Apr 2016
80
73rd
Seasons 1-4: Really, really awesome. House of Cards is a slick, political thriller with huge star power from Spacey and Wright. While the story-telling can become a little oddly paced or not told properly, it is overall quite amazing with great direction and a wonderful tone. Beau Willimon has a winner on his hands.
Rated 13 Mar 2016
40
17th
Season 1 was amazing and 2 was quite good. 3 was hot garbage and 4 started better than 3 but by episode 9 was quickly descending into the incomprehensible illogical writing/story/plot/whatever that was season 3, so I stopped. Apparently there will be a season 5. Not sure why, I thought a house of cards was supposed to eventually fall apart and seems like 52 episodes would have been quite thematic, but the show runners are clearly idiots who lost their way after the initial inspiration.
Rated 11 Mar 2016
65
9th
Trashy and silly but real fun. EDIT: then s5 hit and fuck was it boring
Rated 16 Feb 2016
75
89th
Excellent show.
Rated 10 Feb 2016
74
63rd
S1: 85 S2:75 S3:55 S4:80
Rated 30 Jan 2016
70
55th
My rating changed during the seasons, 80 on the first two, less later. The fifth was horrible, maybe a 45...
Rated 04 Dec 2015
70
74th
Season 5 is not good at all, though.
Rated 25 Nov 2015
70
38th
Tame, but watchable. Inevitably, the first season is the best since it's more or less the exact same as the other two, except the more intriguing story strands end up getting snipped or change into something else and all sorts of characters get put on the backburner. On the other hand, it's often rather strongly written and the acting is meaty and some episodes (mostly the bottle ones) are entertaining, gripping, and a little fierce.
Rated 24 Nov 2015
30
19th
Season 3 is a complete trainwreck that should not have been released
Rated 10 Nov 2015
80
91st
Season 4 (Path to Election): 77
Rated 25 Oct 2015
88
69th
Just for Kevin Spacey.
Rated 23 Oct 2015
54
32nd
Man, Kevin Spacey sure is disgusting and evil, huh? His character in this is pretty bad too.
Rated 24 Sep 2015
80
78th
Season 1 was brilliant - still good after that though.
Rated 11 Sep 2015
35
27th
First season was great (score around 75), second season was compelling but the stupidity of the president was ridiculous (maybe 65), everything afterwards was so unbelievably bad (with the exception of Robin Wright struggling through & Lars Mikkelsen's not-Putin). The last season is an example of everyone involved just wanting it to be over, Kevin Spacey literally becoming the "Poochie died on the way to his home planet" meme after his coming out of the sexual assault closet.
Rated 10 Sep 2015
5
44th
The first season was great. After that season 2 is a bit shittier and then season 3 was just horrifically bad, like really tough to watch bad. We should've expected this though. With Fincher at the helm for the beginning, it was destined to be great. As they run out of source material and have to use shittier directors, the product turns into garbage. Underwood went from cool and menacing to a joke faster than any character in television history
Rated 10 Sep 2015
68
55th
It can be really overdramatic, but the actors generally do a good job of making you buy in. The 3rd season was a drop off, but I'm still looking forward to what comes next.
Rated 09 Sep 2015
6
14th
Bad people.
Rated 09 Sep 2015
65
59th
Season 1 really was great. Stylish, beautifully paced and balanced. The naughtiness was perfectly judged and political intrigue fun. Things started to get well off-kilter maybe halfway into season two, with characters becoming too ridiculous and the plot lines having too much of a farcical edge. This really should have grown into a classic based on the first season. Shame.
Rated 09 Sep 2015
7
44th
great actors and kinda well done but I could give a shit about what happens
Rated 09 Sep 2015
6
47th
S1: 7 / S2: 7 / S3: 4 / S4: 5 /// I've seen a lot of shows with villain protagonists and Frank Underwood might be more irredeemably evil than all of them. Spacey is absolutely disgusting in this, in a good way, which makes the fourth-wall breaking seriously uncomfortable at times. Seems to have peaked with the first two seasons, though.
Rated 09 Sep 2015
70
79th
A bit dull at times, that is the only downside to this overall intriguing political drama. Spacey and Wright are amazing.
House of Cards - Season 1
Season 1 - A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. (imdb)
House of Cards - Season 2
Season 2 - A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. (imdb)
House of Cards - Season 3
Season 3 - A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. (imdb)

Cast & Info

Created by:

Beau Willimon
Beau-Willimon
7 total credits
Beau Willimon has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Ides of March, House of Cards, Mary Queen of Scots and The First

Directed by:

James Foley
James-Foley
19 total credits
James Foley has 19 credits at Criticker, including: Glengarry Glen Ross, House of Cards, Fear, Confidence and Perfect Stranger
,
David Fincher
David-Fincher
24 total credits
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007), Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his 2010 film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe for Best Director... (Wikipedia)
,
Carl Franklin
Carl-Franklin
38 total credits
Carl Franklin has 38 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, Mindhunter, Out of Time, The Leftovers and The Pacific
,
Alik Sakharov
Alik-Sakharov
15 total credits
Alik Sakharov has 15 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Witcher, Black Sails, Marco Polo and Gypsy

Writers:

Andrew Davies
Andrew-Davies
47 total credits
Andrew Davies has 47 credits at Criticker, including: Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, House of Cards, Pride and Prejudice and The Three Musketeers
,
Beau Willimon
Beau-Willimon
7 total credits
Beau Willimon has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Ides of March, House of Cards, Mary Queen of Scots and The First
,
Michael Dobbs
Michael-Dobbs
6 total credits
Michael Dobbs has 6 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, House of Cards, To Play the King, The Final Cut and House of Cards: Chapter 1
,
Kate Barnow
Kate-Barnow
3 total credits
Kate Barnow has 3 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, In the Evening and Orange

Starring:

Kevin Spacey
Kevin-Spacey
76 total credits
Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Academy Award for The Usual Suspects (Best Supporting Actor), followed by a Best Actor Academy Award win for American Beauty (1999)... (Wikipedia)
,
Molly Parker
Molly-Parker
58 total credits
Molly Parker is a Canadian actress, notable for her roles in Canadian and American independent films and the HBO television series Deadwood... (Wikipedia)
,
Neve Campbell
Neve-Campbell
45 total credits
Neve Campbell has 45 credits at Criticker, including: Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Wild Things and The Craft
,
Michael Kelly
Michael-Kelly
36 total credits
Michael Kelly has 36 credits at Criticker, including: Unbreakable, Dawn of the Dead, Man of Steel, Man on the Moon and Now You See Me
,
Robin Wright
Robin-Wright
50 total credits
Robin Wright has 50 credits at Criticker, including: Forrest Gump, The Princess Bride, Unbreakable, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Blade Runner 2049
,
Jayne Atkinson
Jayne-Atkinson
15 total credits
Jayne Atkinson has 15 credits at Criticker, including: Free Willy, House of Cards, Blank Check, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home and Baby Ruby
,
Derek Cecil
Derek-Cecil
14 total credits
Derek Cecil has 14 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Outsider, Haeckel's Tale, The Tomorrow Man and The Listener
,
Mahershala Ali
Mahershala-Ali
31 total credits
Mahershala Ali has 31 credits at Criticker, including: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Moonlight, Green Book and The Place Beyond the Pines
,
Paul Sparks
Paul-Sparks
31 total credits
Paul Sparks has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Mud, House of Cards, Rachel Getting Married, The Greatest Showman and Edge of Darkness
,
Nathan Darrow
Nathan-Darrow
6 total credits
Nathan Darrow has 6 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Wizard of Lies, Black and Blue, Stranger in the House and Yolk
,
Boris McGiver
Boris-McGiver
15 total credits
Boris McGiver has 15 credits at Criticker, including: Taxi, House of Cards, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Point Blank and Teacup
,
Jeremy Holm
Jeremy-Holm
12 total credits
Jeremy Holm has 12 credits at Criticker, including: House of Cards, The Block Island Sound, Brooklyn 45, The Ranger and Silo

Franchise:

House of Cards

Genre:

Drama

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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