Shawndre’ Young

The phrase ‘house of cards’ is a well-known (and perhaps overused) idiom for an untenable situation that will collapse on itself if one part of the precarious balance fails to hold. For the hit Netflix series House of Cards, art and life at this moment seem hard to separate. As the destiny of the Netflix series continues to be debated, and as the fate of its acclaimed and once popular star seems all but sealed, we take a brief look back at the Emmy award-winning drama that helped to define the new age of the streaming TV series.