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Here are five things we learned from the House of Cards season 5 trailer from Netflix.
The first trailer for Netflix’s fifth season of the highly addictive House of Cards has finally arrived, and it’s everything we expected it to be: dramatic, sleek, sexy, creepy and a little too close to home when it comes to American politics.
We are breaking down the five things we learned from the new trailer and making guesses about what’s to come when Netflix drops the show on May 30.
5. Democracy is in trouble
“The American people don’t know what’s best for them,” says Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), who’s sounding more like a totalitarian dictator than someone running for their second term of President of the United States. It’s clear from the trailer that Frank wants to create a new America, one that he can easily control considering he thinks the people are “children”. But how is Frank going to achieve this? It sounds like he’s convincing his wife Claire (Robin Wright) that the American people need the Underwoods even though they’re carrying “Never Underwood” signs throughout the trailer.
One of the biggest questions this trailer brings up: is House of Cards veering away from the normal and going dystopian?
4. Someone is going to die
One of the most interesting scenes from the trailer is thirty seconds in. We see Frank and Claire sitting in a church. Claire is sobbing, while Frank looks on at competition Will Conway (Joel Kinnaman) sitting on the other side of the aisle. Everyone is wearing black and it looks a lot like a funeral. The only question is who’s? Who would die and require the attendance of both candidates in the middle of their campaigns?
One of the biggest questions is why does it upset Claire so much to the point of tears? Or is she just putting up a front? Because Claire is normally a rock, and we never see her cry.
Luke Matheis holds an election sign for television character Frank Underwood, from the show ‘House of Cards,’ June 7, 2016 outside a polling station in West Hollywood, California.
Matheis was employed by Netflix to promote ‘House of Cards’ outside the polling station with fake election material. / AFP / Michael Owen Baker (Photo credit should read MICHAEL OWEN BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
3. Frank is going to win the election
It’s pretty clear that Frank is going to win the election against Conway. We get a shot of a worried Conway, but the electoral map is looking pretty red so we have a feeling that Frank is going to pull the rug out from under him in a last minute victory win.
We also think that Conway is going to crack, big time. We get a glimpse of him smashing some nice china in his home with his wife sitting nearby. Clearly, the picture perfect American family we were introduced to last year is going to crack under the pressure of the election.
2. Claire has long hair in one shot
And it’s interesting because in the rest of the trailer she has her normal short hair, but in one shot we see Frank and Claire sitting in a limo, holding hands as he says “Underwood” and she has long blond hair. It may seem like a small detail, but it brings up the question of whether or not we are getting a glimpse of the future or not.
1. 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036…under wood
The Underwoods here to say and two-term presidencies be damned. With Frank eerily rattling off four-year interval dates it’s clear that the Underwoods plan on staying in the office whether the constitution allows them to or not.
The question is though how far is House of Cards willing to go? Will the show continue to push the boundaries of what can happen when a psycho is elected into office?