No more pain”) and surrender to her mercy killing? Will the one person left who is still hot on Claire’s trail - journalist Janine Skorsky (Constance Zimmer) - expose all of her misdeeds? Will Claire, who is still very alive and very pregnant with Frank’s baby, get away with yet another murder? Did Doug heed her words (“There. Though Doug’s death definitively closes Kelly’s run on House of Cards, the open-ended finale left much to be desired after the screen faded to black for the last time. To Doug, that is the first in a series of missteps taken by Claire, a woman who is dead-set on ruining the man Doug would die for and the legacy they had built. The writers decided to kill Frank offscreen and, in a clip meant to fill viewers in before watching the season, it’s revealed that Claire had her ex-president husband disgracefully buried next to his father in Gaffney, instead of Arlington. The irony of it all is that’s what he’s doing all season,” Kelly tells The Hollywood Reporter of his character’s season six mission to save Frank’s reputation. “Doug’s whole season is dedicated to protecting this man’s legacy and trying to clear his name. But no matter which way she twisted or turned, her dead husband very deliberately haunted her until the bitter end - much like Spacey’s departure cast a shadow over the final season of Netflix’s first original series. After Spacey was fired over sexual assault allegations last fall, co-showrunners Frank Pugliese and Melissa James Gibson reworked the final eight episodes to chart Claire’s ascension as the first female president while she literally and metaphorically stuck her middle finger up to the political patriarchy. The Shakespearean series finale saw House of Cards leaning into the tone and rules that were set forth by Beau Willimon when he created the Spacey-starring drama back in 2013.
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