House Of Cards: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

For its first five seasons, House of Cards was a two-person show. Aside from the first season where Claire played more of a supporting role to Frank, the combination of the two, and the ability of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright to play off each other, was what always made the series stand out above others.

With one half of the equation forcibly removed, the recent sixth season suffered massively from only having one lead to play with (despite Wright being as brilliant as ever). The new characters drafted in for Claire to face off against struggled to make an impact over the significantly reduced screentime, with the most notable of these, Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as the Koch-inspired Annette and Bill Shepherd, coming across far too over the top in their attempts to undermine her presidency. Elsewhere, the Claire vs. Doug plot that the series descended into just hammered home Frank’s absence further.

Netflix were left in an unenviable situation given that there were no real options but to terminate their association with Spacey, but it was hugely disappointing to see such a groundbreaking show go out with a whimper rather than a bang.

It was nice to see a few old faces from seasons gone by drop in, but in retrospect the season was a finale that may have been better off left unfilmed and to the imagination.