Just cold, functional process like scratching an itch you’d rather wasn’t there in the first place. That said, even Claire’s relationship with Tom is absent of emotion no intimacy (save that which he has elicited in his role as Boswell), no longing, no joy.
What does it mean to have no hinterland? It was expressed one way in that awkward breakfast scene with Tom, in which Frank and Claire acted as though this was an entirely natural set-up and that it hadn’t even occurred to them that it would be strange for Tom.
Catherine Durant, Jackie Sharp and Remy Danton are all but confirmed enemies of the Underwoods, Ed Meechum is dead and Doug Stamper, having thrown bagfuls of doubt over Seth Grayson and LeAnn Harvey, now teetering on the brink of another one of his unfortunate episodes. Every temporary ally, confidante and confederate has been mistreated, compromised or otherwise jeopardised that the First Couple genuinely have no one but each other. The political roughhousing of four seasons of drama have stripped Frank and Claire of support beyond a very tiny immediate circle, which is itself frayed almost to destruction. It is their shared project, their legacy and their life. The turning point was the realisation that they could still pursue it together. It is power that brought them together, power that continues to bind them and power that saved their marriage. The Underwoods have only one thing with which to fill their hollow core. And we all know about nature and a vacuum. They are unpeople, drones orbiting a vacuum. No hobbies, no interests, no circle of mutual friends, no desires. The trouble for Frank and Claire is that they don’t have anything, either as individuals or as a couple. Marriage counsellors often recommend that couples seek the things that first brought them together, a shared interest, familiar places and so on. The difficulties that they encountered are familiar to most people, pressures of work, difficulty with family (particularly ancient in-laws) and a natural fading of the original spark. What’s curious is just how relatable the Underwoods’ marriage really is. Something clicked back into place and they found reconciliation. The relationship was certainly in trouble at the beginning and it looked for several episodes as though they were going end as rivals. It actually ended the season stronger than ever with Frank and Claire able to rely only on each other, with them seated together like a royal couple and with your reviewer feeling like a cock-eyed Cassandra. In previewing this season, I noted that the Underwood marriage was under strain and that the project of the narrative was to document its destruction. While the Underwoods are certainly villainous (and increasingly so), their disdain for children is a symptom of something deeper and more significant it’s a component of their utter emptiness as human beings. In much fiction, particularly children’s fiction, it’s the hallmark of a villain, a de Vil, a Trunchbull or a Child Catcher.
The former at least looks to be on Claire’s side in one tense standoff with Frank.A hatred of children is a rather different thing to choosing not to have any yourself. The trailer contains fresh clues as to who new, previously announced guest stars Neve Campbell and Joel Kinnaman will play. The footage also reveals that Ellen Burstyn will guest-star, as will Emmy winner Cicely Tyson, according to the confirmed cast list, which was also released Wednesday. However, that’s hardly the only burning question that comes from the new promo. So does that mean Frank is going to fight to win back his right-hand woman? Or is he going to fight to take her down once and for all? It’s hard to tell with someone as two-faced as Frank Underwood. “I have had to fight for everything my entire life.” You don’t value what we have achieved,” Frank says in the pulse-pounding video.
“You have no idea what it means to have nothing. On Wednesday, Netflix released the first House of Cards season trailer containing actual new footage from the upcoming fourth season, and it’s clear Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) are still very much on opposite sides in the show’s return. There’s no reconciliation in the cards for the Underwoods.
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