That would be, what’s the word? Convenient.”Īfter “weaponizing” assumptions made about women and abusing her power, Claire revealed she was pregnant with Frank’s baby. “You want to know what really happened to him,” Claire tells viewers in one of her many fourth-wall breaks in episode one. But even though his death was announced in the first scene of season six, House of Cards quickly planted a seed of speculation into how exactly he died. Underwood name is now open for public viewing in a cemetery in Gaffney, South Carolina - a real town and the fictional hometown from which Frank hails in the show. Their decision was to kill Frank offscreen, but not reveal who had killed him until the final scene of the series, which invited an “inevitable showdown” between President Claire Hale (Wright), who relinquished her Underwood name, and Frank’s former right-hand man Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly).įrank’s fate was revealed ahead of the season in an early clip, and THR has since reported that the tombstone bearing the Francis J. After Spacey was fired over sexual assault allegations at the height of the #MeToo movement, the House of Cards writers, led by showrunners Frank Pugliese and James Gibson, quickly got to work writing him out of the show when production on the final eight episodes resumed earlier this year.
Much like Kevin Spacey’s disgraceful exit from the series, the mystery of who killed Frank Underwood (Spacey) haunted the entirety of the final season.
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The sixth and final season of the Netflix political saga starring Robin Wright ended - as was promised - with a “beautifully macabre” shocker of a series finale.
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