House of Cards

The general consensus is that House of Cards began to decline after the end of Season 2 when Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood character becomes president.

At that point, his scheming no longer has as much gravity to it, and it starts to get old. He’s already the president — he’s not much of an underdog anymore.

Then, of course, it really took a nosedive when Kevin Spacey was fired from the show and was not a part of the sixth and final season. The result is a narrative that obviously involved some scrambling to pull it together with the show’s main character.