House of Cards Season Five Goes Full Fascist

May 2, 2017
Is Leni Riefenstahl the cinematographer?

There is some ominous business going on in this House of Cards promo. When the Machiavellian (Kevin Spacey) Frank Underwood starts counting future Underwood presidencies out to 2036, do you think he’s talking about a political dynasty in the Bush/Clinton mold, or just  straight-up President-for-Life fascism? The former is bad enough, but something in the iconography being deployed says its the latter.

So, it looks like House of Cards is going full jackboot. And why not? What used to pass for on-the-nose political satire is now front page news, so anyone in the business of spinning governmental straw into narrative gold is going to have their work cut out for them.

House of Cards Season 5 hits Netflix on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.

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