At the end of last season, you said that at that point, Frank could kill Claire or visa versa, and that they were each capable of anything. There are no pictures of him and his voice is never heard. Weren't she and Frank estranged when he died? "She’s allowed to be as complicated and surprising and dark and everything he ever was.". We really did explore every possibility, but just in terms of Claire’s psychology — and actually Doug Stamper’s as well — until that was what became clear as the right thing to do. A survey of some of film’s best paranoid political thrillers. So it’s a feeling that she’s both free and there’s a relief, but ultimately alone because of it. One of the themes hanging over this season, as we talked about, is complicity and I think it raises questions on every side about this journey that we’ve been on for six seasons. It was really about, “What is the best thing? The sixth season begins four months later. Soon afterward, Congressman Alex Romero encourages Republicans in the House to start up the Declaration of War committee to investigate Frank, which puts Claire and Frank in damage control. A high-five and hearty congrats to President Claire Underwood — oops, President Claire Hale — for that big surprise in the sixth episode of the final season of House of Cards. And what about Tom Yates, who was literally poisoned to death while Claire had sex with him last season? So maybe it was an option, for sure, especially since it’s been an option in the versions of the story that had been told before from the book to the BBC series. Because they’ve been invited in, in a way that the direct address device really underscores. unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations). Take revenge on all those who betrayed her husband and herself. Before the Spacey scandal, there were talks of House of Cards spinoffs being in the works. Sometimes there’s a pressure or want for Claire’s character to be representative somehow of a female president or some aspect of a representative beyond the rules of the show. Throughout the beginning, she helps make the campaign's focal point about the fear of terrorism and how they can stop the threat. “She’s using it to gain power. I don’t think Claire as a character herself has ever been interested in being likable. One is where Freddy is describing how to slow bleed a pig and slams his hand down and Frank jumps. It's fascinating. When an incredulous Claire confronts him, Frank says that it was his plan all along to resign and set her up to be president, so that the two of them can run Washington together—she from the White House and he from the private sector. Pugliese and James Gibson also answer questions about the future of the franchise, and imagine what life looks for President Claire Hale beyond the moment when House of Cards finally falls. Whatever the audience imagines after is all part of the end of the show. Through their usual lies and manipulations, Frank and Claire gradually eliminate all the other candidates for Vice President until Claire clinches the nomination. Another example: Claire is pressured by the media into revealing that she once had an abortion, but she lies and states that the unborn child was a result of rape (presumably to save political face). Doug accuses her of using her motherhood that way, but it’s not that simple. The character of Francis is more so haunting the show and casting a shadow over it, and trying to insist on a place within it. Related: House of Cards' Ending Was BETTER Without Kevin Spacey. Pugliese: To your point about the sometimes contradictory feelings of that ending, is that Claire has been negotiating the whole season around who is going to partner with her. What was the decision behind erasing him in that way? Again, she shows no remorse about her lie and instead profits from it, gaining much sympathy and public support. She then leaks this to the press implying that president's mental state is not healthy. It complicates things for her in a way that made it exciting. She fires her cabinet to neutralize his influence, and leaks information tying him and Bill Shepherd to laundering money for the Russian government; she also punishes Annette Shepherd by revealing to the press that Annette's son, Duncan, is in fact the biological child of one of her serving staff. Pugliese: There was a rigor that [creator] Beau Willimon and David Fincher put in place with the show as far as storytelling and even visually. Exactly how that was going to happen and if somebody was going to die, or pay the price, for all that, we didn’t know until we got close to the ending. Doug became the next character to break the fourth wall and speak to the audience in the final two episodes. In the end, Claire is, to some degree, freeing Doug Stamper and looking at us in a full-circle way. In response, Yates threatens to publish a book detailing the Underwoods' crimes. Secondly, regarding crying: psychopaths cry. And goes to the fridge and makes two eggs. By this time, Claire and Yates have fallen in love, which complicates both their lives. Claire eventually wins when Blythe issues a bill to block any filibuster in the Senate; while the House cannot reach a majority. A pregnant POTUS? She manipulates the First Lady into visiting a physiologists alongside with her husband in order to save their marriage. It’s her, Claire Underwood Pregnancy, Abortions On House Of Cards, That Americans have a long, rough week ahead is an understatement. She is willing to betray everyone and also erase anyone who will pose as threat to her. James Gibson: And Claire exerting herself and taking a stand in that final way. What was Claire conveying with her final look to the camera? At what point in the process of plotting and restructuring the season after Kevin Spacey's exit did you decide that this is how the show would end? It is also believed that she met Frank Underwood during her time at Radcliffe. All rights reserved. She is not at all borderline. He attacks her with a letter opener, superficially wounding her in the throat, but cannot bring himself to kill her, instead collapsing into her arms. Quite literally in the first episode of this season, Claire is attempting to declare independence on the Fourth of July. her entire male cabinet and replacing them with women. We sort of played with his voice and his direct address. have less power than her) or with people more powerful than her (i.e. Claire is a very strong and decisive woman. I just hope that the writers/Kevin Spacey know this and put in his startle (I noted it was a bit slow) as a 'fake' fear. Correct me if I am wrong, but Claire just does not appear to be that warm or genuine and has an almost untouchable air about her. Claire is wrestling with that idea for herself and there she is, hearing this voice she was complicit with and asks for complicity. Claire did a fantastic depiction of this in the series. She actually rules the White House and starts unauthorized projects by the president. However, she feels a certain disappointment because of her being only the way to Frank's power goals. Then Claire throws up. There’s an isolation that comes with that. Pugliese: We were coming up with an ending and it seemed most compelling that it’s an ending that says: It’s not over. In this context, I refer to these women as 'functional psychopaths'. Audiences see flashbacks to a young Claire throughout Season 6, and in the finale episode, both young and current Claire talk to each other in the baby's nursery. 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