House Of Cards Season 5: 23 Biggest WTF Moments

16. Time Jump

House of Cards Not My President
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How they would handle the election was a big question going into Season 5, and after a few episodes of setup and no one being able to get an official result - thanks to plenty of Frank's typical skullduggery - we get something close to an answer: a time jump.

It leaps forward nine weeks, which is an unexpected move, but then that does pay off. We open the fifth episode with huge crowds of protesters gathered outside of the White House, furiously yelling "NOT MY PRESIDENT!'

Most of this happened before Trump was even elected, which makes it all scarily prescient.

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