House of Cards
It's from 2013, when you were 7.
- Network
- Netflix
- Genre
- Political drama
- Premiered
- 2013
- Note
- Netflix's first major original
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About
As of 2026, it's 13 years old.
House of Cards helped kick off the streaming-prestige era in 2013, releasing a whole season at once and inventing the modern binge. Its story of a ruthlessly ambitious politician clawing toward power — pausing to address the camera directly with silky menace — made scheming feel like Shakespeare in a sharp suit.
Kevin Spacey's drawling, fourth-wall-breaking villain drove its early acclaim, before off-screen events overtook the show's later seasons entirely.
Sleek, cynical, and binge-defining, House of Cards is the drama that turned political backstabbing into glossy spectacle and helped teach the world to watch a whole season in a weekend.
House of Cards season by season
House of Cards ran for 6 seasons (2013–2018) across 73 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
