It's hard enough to keep up with real-world politics these days, and the same goes for Netflix's "House of Cards," which returns for season five on May 30. There are many new characters, a lot of intense fights between Frank and Claire Underwood, and a lot of Doug Stamper being really, really creepy. Oh, and a lot of Frank manipulating every single person who crosses his path (which is pretty standard).
While there's a long weekend coming up, that's still not much time to catch up on all four seasons of the show before the fifth season unless you don't get off your couch at all.
From murder to affairs, here's everything that's happened on "House of Cards" that you need to know about going into the new season:
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Season one
In season one, we're introduced to Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey). In his first scene of the series, he breaks the fourth wall by talking to the camera. Also he kills a dog.
Frank is a US congressman from South Carolina and the Democratic Majority Whip. But he hungers for even more power and will do anything (literally, like even murder) to get it.
Throughout season one, Frank sleeps with journalist Zoe Barnes and feeds her intel. She doesn't reveal her secret source to her colleagues.
Frank and Zoe’s strange affair resulted in a creepy sex scene in which Frank has Zoe call her father on Father’s Day as he performs oral sex on her.
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