4 Things We're Digging About House of Cards Season 4

House of Cards has managed to retain its constituents' loyalty and love in spite of some not-okay missteps by its Commander In Chief.

To boot, some of the turns just felt outrageously implausible, like Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) --chief of staff of United States--lying off to Caracas during the primaries to beat up a hacker, fly home and proceed to enact more carnage before deciding against it and then changing his mind to go ahead and totally kill someone.

Frank's milieu isn't any less crazy, but in early episodes, the believability factor is cranked up a notch due to the fact that some of the situations seemed ripped directly from up-to-the-minute headlines.

Super Tuesday, perhaps unsurprisingly, comes into play, as does racial politics, with a mini-scandal so akin to what's happening in the real-life political realm right now it'll feel like the writers had ESP.

Neve Campbell arrives this season too although, in the first six episodes, her character feels more like a functional leg in the table that forms the story rather than someone we're obsessed with like the aforementioned.

[...] Campbell, like her character, embodies a cool, muted intensity and reserved beauty that makes her a good complement to Claire.

[...] it's exciting, and, considering how uneventful last season was, this sudden shift will induce a turn of events that helps breathe new life back into the series.