I enjoyed the 4th season of "House of Cards". The highlights were the chapters directed by Robin Wright, with everything before, between and after those being good but often uneven up until now.
My favourite developments were the ones involving the campaign, all the backstabbing etc. I hoped we would have the election this season, but after some episodes it started to drag a bit and it was clear we wouldn't reach it this year. "Chapter 51" shifted the focus completely and was all about a terrorist crisis that lost all my interest. This crisis continued in the last episode of the season, and another crisis showed up, one that is equally uninteresting: Tom Hammerschmidt's article on the Herald.
The new story doesn't feel all that threatening, and yet everybody keeps talking about it as if it was super harmful. What important part does it have that Lucas Goodwin didn't know already? Some quotes by partial people? We know what happened to Lucas. Frank should easily overcome this, considering everything he's been through in this series.
All of this ended up being hard to swallow and even eye-rolling. The dialogue between Claire and Frank when they decide to generate fear and war is just cringe-worthy. The actors try hard but there's not much to do about it. Also, I have no idea what it means for the future of the series when Claire breaks the 4th wall in the last seconds of the episode.