‘House of Cards’ fills a Kevin Spacey-sized hole with the first female presidency led by Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood and a host of scandals in its final season on Netflix.
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Despite the high production value and caliber of its leading actors, the Netflix original ‘House of Cards’ is more soap opera than complex drama.