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<em>House of Cards</em> Season 5, Episode 1: The Live-Binge Review

The White House launches its own terroristic campaign.
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As in previous years, I’m binge-reviewing the latest season of Netflix’s House of Cards, the TV show that helped popularize the idea of “binge watching” when it premiered in 2013. Don’t read farther than you’ve watched.

Episode 1 (Chapter 53)

Season Five of brings a new and a new real-life president for Frank Underwood to be compared to. It also, for a moment, seemed to bring a new gimmick of Claire addressing the camera just as her husband does. “I’ve been meaning to talk

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