I preferred HOC when it dealt, as the UK version did, with governmental machinations having major consequences. This season was intermittently boring with too many occasions requiring suspension of disbelief. The Secretary of State is a powerless cipher, the Russian and US presidents do most of their business over the phone, and the president suborning his own cuckolding was beyond the pale.
And yet I watched it all, and will watch the next season. I blame myself. ;)
Yeah. This season’s plots require that we believe that everyone is completely naive, stupid and incompetent except the Underwoods.