The difficulties that they encountered are familiar to most people, pressures of work, difficulty with family (particularly ancient in-laws) and a natural fading of the original spark. What’s curious is just how relatable the Underwoods’ marriage really is. While the Underwoods are certainly villainous (and increasingly so), their disdain for children is a symptom of something deeper and more significant it’s a component of their utter emptiness as human beings. In much fiction, particularly children’s fiction, it’s the hallmark of a villain, a de Vil, a Trunchbull or a Child Catcher. ‘I don’t like children’, he spits in an acrid drawl.Ī hatred of children is a rather different thing to choosing not to have any yourself. Frank, who still has to pretend otherwise in public, can be even more direct. It was a line that was meant to shock, which it did, but only because it broke one of our society’s mild taboos, in which procreation is seen as a universal good and choosing not to, particularly for women, is considered odd. “Do you regret not having children?”, asked the younger woman. It came from Hannah Conway who, as the wife of Republican challenger William, might have been better prepared to withstand pointed comparisons with the First Lady.
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It involved Claire Underwood and a question that, were this real life, would have dogged her campaign to join her husband’s presidential ticket.
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There was a very telling moment towards the end of this season of House Of Cards.