Genre Drama
Cast Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Mahershala Ali
Rating TV-MA
Series Premiere May 30th, 2017 (Netflix)
“A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.”
“Majority House Whip Francis Underwood takes you on a long journey as he exacts his vengeance on those he feels wronged him - that is, his own cabinet members including the President of the United States himself. Dashing, cunning, methodical and vicious, Frank Underwood along with his equally manipulative yet ambiguous wife, Claire take Washington by storm through climbing the hierarchical ladder to power in this Americanized recreation of the BBC series of the same name.”
Ted Takes Fun Facts, House of Cards:
- The first two seasons together cost $100 million to produce.
- Season 3 was accidentally released to Netflix two weeks before the official release. It was taken down around 17 minutes later.
- Netflix won the bidding war between the rest of the networks to produce the show because they committed to do two seasons directly.
- Michel Gill (President Walker) and Jayne Atkinson (Catherine Durant) are married in real-life.