Season 1 (2013) Writer

Francis “Frank” Underwood, a power-hungry Democratic congressman from South Carolina and House majorité whip , celebrates the election of President Garrett Walker, Whose campaign he assisted to get himself appointed Secretary of State . However, Underwood soon learns that he is no longer considered for the position. Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez Underwood That tells the president wants _him_ to Promote His agenda in Congress and will not honor Their agreement. Inwardly seething, Underwood quickly gains control of his anger and hides his disappointment to present himself as a helpful lieutenant to Walker and his agenda. In reality,

Frank’s wife Claire runs an NGO , the Clean Water Initiative, which she uses to cultivate her own power and influence, yet its ultimate purpose remains unknown. Despite the success of the operation, Claire seeks to expand its scope to the international stage. It is clear from the outset that Claire shares both her husband’s cold-hearted, ruthless pragmatism and lust for power, and they frequently scheme together to ensure the success of each other’s ventures. They both work with Remy Danton, a corporate lobbyist and former Underwood staffer, to secure funds for their operations and expand their influence.

Underwood begins a highly intricate plan to obtain a firm position , acquiring pawns he can manipulate in his power play. Underwood begins a symbiotic, and ultimately sexual, relationship with Zoe Barnes, an ambitious young political reporter, secretly feeding her damaging stories about her political rivals to sway public opinion as needed. Meanwhile, he manipulates Peter Russo, a troubled alcoholic and congressman from Pennsylvania , into helping _him_ Undermine Walker’s pick for Secretary of State, Senator Michael Kern. Underwood eventually has Kern replaced with his own choice, Senator Catherine Durant. Underwood also uses Russo in a plot to end a teachers’ strike and pass an education bill, which improves Underwood’s standing with Walker.

Since the new vice president is the governor of Pennsylvania, a special election is to be held for his successor. Underwood helps Russo get clean and props up his candidacy, but later uses call girl Rachel Posner to break his sobriety and trigger his public downfall shortly before the election. Distraught, Russo decides to make amends for his failure in underwriting schemes. In response, Frank kills Russo by leaving him passed in a closed garage with Russo’s car running, causing him to die of carbon monoxide poisoning . With the election in chaos,

Walker appears to have other plans, however. Underwood ends up vetting a surprising choice for vice president: Missouri billionaire Raymond Tusk. Tusk has been secretly appraising Underwood for vice president and is a longtime advisor and friend of Walker; It was Tusk to convinced Walker to break his original agreement to make Underwood. Tusk explains he will influence Walker to nominate Underwood if he agrees to perform one unspecified favor for him that will benefit Tusk’s financial interests. Underwood, after some thought, counter-proposes to Tusk that they work together to fulfill both their interests, which Tusk accepts. Meanwhile, after Underwood ends their affair, Zoe begins piecing together clues about Underwood’s various plots.

Season 2 (2014)

With Zoe and two colleagues, Lucas Goodwin and Janine Skorsky, she continues to look into her schemes, and ultimately locate Rachel. As a protective measure, Frank’s helps Doug Stamper brings Rachel to a safe house while Frank Lures Zoe to a Metro station, and pushes her in front of an oncoming train. Zoe’s death compels Janine to abandon the investigation, but galvanizes Lucas to continue the search alone. Lucas solicits the help of a hacker to retrieve Frank’s text history. However, the hacker, Gavin Orsay, actually works for Doug and frames Lucas for cyberterrorism . Later, Gavin uses Rachel to extort Doug.

After Frank begins his vice presidential duties, Claire becomes close with the First Lady , and they support a bill to reform the military’s prosecution of sexual assault , after Claire reveals in an interview that she had an abortion after being raped in college by a man who Has just been commissioned as a general. (Claire lies by conflating two events, a sexual assault by the college classmate and an abortion she has several years later). She learns Walker’s marriage is strained and offers the First Lady a spiritual counselor and marriage counselor.

Though Tusk wields major influence over Walker, Frank loved to drive a wedge between them. He meets Xander Feng, a Chinese businessman and ally of Tusk’s, to engage in back-channel negotiations which Frank intentionally scuttles at the expense of Tusk’s credibility. This leads to a trade with China and a spike in US energy prices. Tusk openly opposes Walker’s efforts to deal with the crisis and begins a tribal casino funnel money into Republican PACs in retaliation. When Frank discovers that Feng is the source of the funneled money, he gets to a lucrative bridge contract.

The Justice Department discovers that Doug was videotaped at the casino and investigates the White House’s ties to Feng and Tusk. Seeking to establish trust with the special prosecutor , Frank manipulates Walker into volunteering his travel records, which reveal his doubts about whether the illicit donations were discussed. Wishing to avoid public disclosure of his personal issues, Walker has the White House Counsel coach the counselor, which special prosecutor interprets as witness tampering . As the House Judiciary Committee begins drafting articles of impeachment , Both Walker and Frank offer Tusk a presidential pardon in exchange for implicating each other. Tusk sides with Walker at first, leaving Frank no other option than to regain the president’s trust as a friend. Walker calls off his deal with Tusk as a sign of friendship to Frank, leading Tusk to testify that Walker knew about the deal with China. With Walker forced to resign, Frank is sworn in as president.

Season 3 (2015)

Six months into his presidency, Frank begins by pushing for a new jobs program called America Works. Because funding for America Works is a must for social programs , Frank faces immense opposition from his own party. Determined to leave a legacy and not be a “placeholder” president, Underwood makes ambitious moves to run in the 2016 presidential election , where he faces off against Heather Dunbar in the Democratic Primaries . This decision is a reversal of his previous pledge not to run for the presidency.

Meanwhile, Doug recovers from his injuries, goal Frank refuses to reinstate him as his chief of staff. Doug appears to switch sides and begins working for Dunbar’s campaign. Gavin helps Doug track down Rachel in exchange for lifting the ban on his passport ; Jane Doe but with fingerprints matching Rachel’s. Distraught by the news, Doug suffers a relapse , which Frank blames on Dunbar. When Gavin reveals that Rachel is really alive, Doug brutalizes him into divulging her location. Doug finds Rachel living under a false identity in New Mexico , drives her into the desert, and eventually kills her too. He returns to work as Frank’s Chief of Staff after Remy resigns.

Meanwhile, Claire is named the US Ambassador to the United Nations and faces a crisis in the Jordan Valley , which pits Frank against Russian President Viktor Petrov. When Petrov has an American gay rights activist arrested in Russia , the Underwoods persuade him to secure a release. However, Petrov demands that the activist apologize on Russian television, leading the activist to kill himself while being visited by Claire. Later, after Russian troops are killed in the Jordan Valley, Petrov convinces Frank to remove Claire as an ambassador in exchange for a peaceful resolution. Claire resigns, giving the reason that she wants to be more active in Frank’s campaign.

Throughout the season, a writer named Thomas Yates follows the Underwoods. He is hired by Frank to write a biography that Frank plans to use to promote America Works. Yates, a fiction writer with a dark past of his own, decides to put a different spin on the book and writes about Frank and more about his marriage with Claire. Yates reads Frank a prologue that Frank is not understand at first, but agrees is a decent beginning. By the end of the season, Yates has the first chapter written and Frank, not liking the direction is taken, Yates fires. By the season finale, tensions between the Underwoods.

Season 4 (2016)

Claire relocates to Dallas and runs for Congress in her home district. The incumbent, Doris Jones, plans to retire and endorse her daughter Celia as her successor. Claire offers them federal funding for a key Planned Parenthood clinic in exchange for stepping down, but they refuse the offer. Frank desperately seeks to get Claire back by his side as he loses ground in key primary states. Celia Jones in his State of the Union address . He succeeds after promising not to sabotage her campaign in Texas , but he later blocks her congressional bid by publicly endorsing Celia Jones . Frank and Claire travel to South Carolina for the primary, but a series of scandals casts Frank in a bad light and causes him to narrowly lose the state to Dunbar. Frank Discovers That HAD beens Claire leaking information to Dunbar, and she continues Threatens to UNLESS he names her as His running mate . Frank refuses.

Lucas is released from prison and seeks revenge against Frank. He approaches Dunbar and explains his story, but she turns him away. Desperate, he attempts to assassinate Frank, wounding the chair in the abdomen and killing bodyguard Edward Meechum, but not before Meechum kills Lucas. While Frank remains comatose , Donald Blythe is sworn in as acting president . Blythe is an indecisive act in Russia, and turns to Claire for guidance on foreign policy. Claire goes against Frank’s wishes by convincing Blythe to involve China in the ensuing dispute and secure a meeting with Petrov, where she brokers an ambitious peace deal single-handedly. While Frank remains incapacitated, Doug decides to go after Dunbar by leaking information about his secret meeting with Lucas prior to the assassination attempt. Dunbar denounces the allegations as a smear campaign, in a move that is widely panned and leads to her suspending her presidential bid. Frank recovers and summaries his position as president, agreeing to put Claire on the ticket for the upcoming election.

Tom Hammerschmidt, Zoe and Lucas’s former editor, digs deeper into the claims of Frank’s misdeeds. He approaches Remy and, with his help, starts to piece together Frank’s corruption. Tom also meets with Walker, convincing him to help to be resigned. Danton and Jackie Sharp also decide to go on the record against Frank to lend credibility to the story.

An American family is kidnapped in Tennessee by two supporters of a radical Islamic group called the Islamic Caliphate Organization (ICO), which agrees to negotiate only with the ambitious Republican nominee, Governor Will Conway. Frank invites Conway to the White House to assist in the negotiations as a publicity stunt, and Conway helps to buy time in locating the suspects. However, tensions between the Conways and Underwoods lead to the governor’s role in the crisis. Frank and Claire allow the kidnappers to speak to the deposed leader of ICO, Yusuf al Ahmadi, after successfully obtaining the release of two of the hostages. Instead of defusing the situation as he agreed,

Meanwhile, Hammerschmidt publishes his story and threatens to end Frank’s campaigns before the election. Claire urges Frank to use a heavier hand in the situation, and they decide to fight back by creating chaos. Frank addresses the public declaring that the nation is at total war, ordering the full force of the military be used to fight global terrorism regardless the cost. The season ends with Frank and Claire watching the live performance of the hostage together, and Claire breaking the fourth wall for the first time by looking into the camera along with Frank.

Season 5 (2017)

In the weeks before the 2016 election, Frank uses the ICO threat to justify enacting martial law in urban areas and consolidating the polling places in key states. Done mainly back channels with Democratic Governors, this is officially done in the name of safety, but is actually done to disenfranchise rural Republican voters. To keep the strategy of fear going, Doug blackmails hacker Aidan Macallan so that he can launch a massive cyberattack on the NSA , slowing down internet traffic and wiping out hundreds of thousands of files. The Underwood Administration pins the attack on ICO.

On Election Day , the result hinges on Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Ohio . Contrary to the Underwoods’ desired plans, the early returns seem to favor Conway. Underwood’s political machine courses in a terrorist attack in Tennessee, which is pinned on a local suspected ICO sympathizer. With Pennsylvania secured by Conway and Ohio, Frank unofficially calls Conway directly to concede. However, this is not the case with the United States, and the United States is not the only country in which the United States has jurisdiction over the United States. Conway off guard, as the Underwoods contact the Ohio governor and convince him to close the polls early on the pretense of a terrorist threat. Ohio and Tennessee, states that they do not qualify for election as candidates.

Nine weeks after the unresolved election, the Twelfth Amendment is invoked, with the vote being put up to members of Congress. During a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus , cracks begin to appear in Conway’s facade as he loses his cool. In spite of this, Frank’s own luggage and 12% approval rating only allow him a tie with Conway in the House, while Claire manages to secure the Senate vote, becoming acting president. In light of the tie, Claire orders a special election for Ohio and Tennessee. Meanwhile, Jane Davis, a low-ranking Commerce Department official who has a wide-ranging network of connections and influence, begins working closely with the Underwoods.

As a private citizen for the time being, Frank is waiting for a meeting of powerful men at a secret society known as Elysian Fields, in an effort to secure their influence for the votes in the upcoming special election. Meanwhile, Conway has a mental breakdown on his private plane due to feeling that the election was stolen from him. Eventually, this and other leaks from his campaign are slowly dripped to the media in a way that seems unconnected to the Underwoods. Seeing that his candidate is losing, Conway’s campaign manager , Mark Usher, switches sides to the Underwoods. The Underwood ticket wins both Ohio and Tennessee, and Frank is sworn in as president and Claire as vice president.

Meanwhile, Hammerschmidt continues to investigate Zoe’s death, and is given information by an unknown leaker within the White House. Hammerschmidt, which, among other things, promptly an impeachment hearing against Frank. In response, the Underwoods set up extensive monitoring on all White House staff. Eventually, the leaker makes a voice-modulated call to Hammerschmidt, implicating Doug in Zoe’s murder. The Underwoods convince Doug to take the fall for Zoe’s murder, and the leaker is revealed to be Frank himself.

The leaks are to be Revealed hand of Frank’s master plan to resign the presidency to Claire, believing His thirst for power can be better Achieved in the private sector , working Alongside His wife’s presidency. Frank, concerned about Durant’s intention to testify at the impeachment hearing, pushes her down a short flight of stairs upon accepting her resignation, hospitalizing her so she is unable to testify. Claire poisons Yates with an overdose of Gelsemium provided to her by Jane, concerned that he knows too much. Finally, contractors working for the Underwoods eliminate. Frank resigns, and the two await the proper moment for Claire to forgive him. ICO, which moves media focus away from Frank. Standing in the Oval Office, Claire appears to be reconsidering pardoning Frank, and ignores multiple concerned calls from him regarding the matter. The season ends with Claire hanging up the phone, then breaking the fourth wall to tell the viewers, “My turn.”

Cast and characters

• Kevin Spacey as Francis J. “Frank” Underwood , Democrat from South Carolina ‘s 5th Congressional District, which is House Majority, in the United States in Season Two, and the President of the United States in Seasons Three To five.
• Robin Wright as Claire Underwood , Frank’s wife who runs the Clean Water Initiative, a non-governmental organization , in order to become a Second Lady of the United States in season two. She Then Becomes United States Ambassador to the United Nations in season three and First Lady of the United States in seasons three to five, Acting President of the United States Briefly in season five before Becoming Vice President of the United States And Then Permanently President of the United States at the end of the season.
• Michael Kelly as Douglas “Doug” Stamper, Underwood’s unwaveringly loyal chief of staff and confidant. He is temporarily replaced by Remy Danton as Chief of Staff.
• Kate Mara as Zoe Barnes, a reporter for The Washington Herald (and later Slugline ). She forms an intimate relationship with Frank Underwood, her political informant, who in turn uses her as a mouthpiece to the press and irk his political rivals.
• Corey Stoll as Peter Russo, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania ‘s 1st congressional district and recovering addict.
• Mahershala Ali as Remy Danton, a lawyer for Glendon Hill and a lobbyist who works for natural gas company in SanCorp in season one and Raymond Tusk in season two. He worked in Underwood’s Congressional Office as a Director of Tusk.
• Michel Gill as Garrett Walker, 45th President of the United States , Form Governor of Colorado . He trusts Underwood as a close adviser and lieutenant, but remains blind to his machinations.
• Gerald McRaney as Raymond Tusk, a billionaire businessman with a wide network of influence, though he prefers to live modestly.
• Rachel Brosnahan as Rachel Posner, a prostitute whom Underwood and Stamper use to bring about Russo’s downfall.
• Nathan Darrow as Edward Meechum, a member of the US Capitol Police and the Underwoods’ bodyguard and driver.
• Sakina Jaffrey as Linda Vasquez, President Walker’s White House Chief of Staff .
• Joanna Going as Patricia Walker, President Garrett Walker’s wife and First Lady of the United States .
• Sebastian Arcelus as Lucas Goodwin, an editor at The Washington Herald and later Zoe’s boyfriend.
• Jimmy Simpson as Gavin Orsay, a computer hacker turned reluctant FBI informing, who works secretly with Doug Stamper in exchange for help escaping the country.
• Reg E. Cathey as Freddy Hayes, the owner of Freddy’s BBQ – an eatery frequented by Underwood – and one of Underwood’s only true friends and confidants.
• Derek Cecil as Seth Grayson, a political operative who becomes Secretary of State for Under President through Blackmail.
• Kristen Connolly as Christina Gallagher, a congressional staffer and personal assistant to President Walker, and lover to Peter Russo.
• Constance Zimmer as Janine Skorsky, a reporter for The Washington Herald .
• Jayne Atkinson as Catherine “Cathy” Durant, a Democratic Senator from Louisiana and Secretary of State .
• Elizabeth Marvel as Heather Dunbar, a lawyer and Solicitor General of the US in the Walker Administration. She runs against Underwood for the Democratic nomination for President in Seasons 3-4.
• Lars Mikkelsen as Viktor Petrov, the President of Russia . ^[8]
• Molly Parker as Jacqueline “Jackie” Sharp, a Democratic congresswoman from California who succeeded Frank as Majority Whip. Democratic nomination for President in season 3.
• Boris McGiver as Tom Hammerschmidt, editor-in-chief of The Washington Herald . He opens an investigation into the secret dealings of Frank and his inner circle in Season 4.
• Neve Campbell as LeAnn Harvey, a Texas-based political consultant Claire Hires to run her Congressional campaign. She later becomes the Campaign Manager for the Underwoods for the 2016 Election.
• Paul Sparks as Thomas Yates, a successful author asks to write a book about the America Works program. Claire’s lover.
• Joel Kinnaman as Will Conway, Republican Governor of New York and Nominee for President of the United States running against Frank.
• Campbell Scott as Mark Usher, Conway’s Campaign Manager. He later joins the Underwood’s inner circle as a “Special Adviser”.
• Patricia Clarkson as Jane Davis, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade. She is very well connected to the underwoods.
• James Martinez as Alex Romero, a Democratic Congressman who leads the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Frank’s alleged abuse of power.
• Gil Birmingham as Daniel Lanagin, a Native American casino owner in Missouri and business partner of Raymond Tusk.
• Kathleen Chalfant as Margaret Tilden, the owner of The Washington Herald .
• Terry Chen as Xander Feng, a corrupt Chinese businessman and back-channel diplomat and one of Raymond Tusk’s business partners.
• Sandrine Holt as Gillian Cole, the leader of a grass-roots organization called World Well that provides clean water to developing countries.
• Kevin Kilner as Michael Kern, Senator of Colorado and President Walker’s original choice for the position of Secretary of State.
• Benito Martinez as Hector Mendoza, a Republican Senator from Arizona and the Senate Majority Leader .
• Lance E. Nichols as Gene Clancy, the Mayor of Gaffney, South Carolina .
• Elizabeth Norment as Nancy Kaufberger, secretary to Frank Underwood and Doug Stamper.
• Samuel Page as Connor Ellis, a media consultant who becomes Communications Director for Claire Underwood.
• Larry Pine as Bob Birch, the Democratic Speaker of the House and current House Minority Leader.
• Dan Ziskie as Jim Matthews, the first Vice President of the United States under President Walker, and former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania .
• Mozhan Marnò as Wall Street Telegraph reporter Ayla Sayyad. She is assigned to the White House and does freelance investigative reporting.
• Kim Dickens as Kate Baldwin, chief reporter of the Wall Street Telegraph . She replaces Sayyad at the White House after Seth Grayson dismisses Sayyad for protocol violations.
• Kelly AuCoin as Gary Stamper, Doug Stamper’s brother.
• Ellen Burstyn as Elizabeth Hale, Claire’s mother.

Production

Conception

Independent studio Media Rights Capital, founded by Mordecai Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, producer of films such as Babel , purchased the rights to House of Cards with the intention to create a series. ^[10] While finishing production on his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , David Fincher ‘s agent showed him House of Cards , a BBCminiseries starring Ian Richardson . ^[10] Fincher was interested in producing a potential series with Eric Roth . ^[10] Fincher said that he was interested in doing television because of his long-form nature, ^[11] adding which works in film does not allow for complex characterizations the way that television allows. ^[11] “I felt for the past ten years that the best writing that was happening for actors was happening in television. ^[11]

MRC approached different networks about the series, including HBO , Showtime and AMC , Netflix goal , hoping to launch its own original programming, outbid the other networks. ^[12] Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer , looked at the data of Netflix users’ streaming habits and there was an audience for Fincher and Spacey. ^[13] “It looked incredibly promising,” he said, “kind of the perfect storm of material and talent.” ^[10] In finding a writer to adapted the series, Fincher Stated That They needed someone who faithfully translate Could parliamentary politics to Washington. ” ^[10] Will Smith , who has helped Charles Schumer , Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton , ^[14] was hired and completed the pilot script in early 2011. ^[10] Willimon saw the opportunity to create an entirely new series The original and deepen its overall story. ^[10]

The project was first announced in March 2011, with Kevin Spacey attached to star and serve as an executive producer. ^[16]Fincher was announced as director for the first two episodes, from scripts by Willimon. Netflix ordered 26 episodes to air over two seasons. ^[17]

Spacey called Netflix’s model of publishing all episodes at once a “new perspective.” ^[15] He added that Netflix’s commitment to two full seasons gave the series greater continuity. “We know exactly where we are going,” he said. ^[15] In a speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival , he also noted that while other networks were interested in the show, they all wanted a pilot , but Netflix relying solely on their statistics directly ordered the series. ^[18] In January 2016, show creator, executive producer and showrunner Beau Willimon ‘s departure following season 4 was announced. ^[19]

Casting

Fincher stated that every member was their first choice. ^[11] In the first read through , he said “I do not want to fuck this up.” ^[11] Spacey, whose last regular television was in the series Wiseguy , which ran from 1987 until 1990, responded positively to the script. He then played Richard III at The Old Vic , which Fincher said was “great training.” ^[11]Spacey supports the decision to release all of the episodes at once, believing that this type of release pattern will be increasingly common with television shows. He said, “When I asked my friends what they did with their weekend, they say, ‘Oh, I stayed in and watched three seasons of Breaking Bad or it’s two seasons of Game of Thrones . ^[20] He was officially cast on March 18, 2011. ^[16] Robin Wright was approached by Fincher to star in the series when they worked together in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . ^[11] She Was cast as Claire Underwood in June 2011. ^[21] Kate Mara Was cast as Zoe Barnes in early February 2012. ^[22] Mara’s sister, Rooney , Worked with Fincher in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , And when Kate Mara read the part of Zoe, she “fell in love with the character” and asked her to “put in a word for me with Fincher.” The next month, she got a call for an audition. ^[23]

Filming

Locations

Principal photography for the first season Began in January 2012 ^[24] in Harford County, Maryland , on the Eastern seaboard of the United States. ^[25] Filming of exterior scenes in 2013 Primarily centered in and around the city of Baltimore , Maryland, qui est about 40 miles Northeast of Washington, DC

Among the Numerous exteriors filmed in Baltimore, goal set in Washington, DC, are: Francis and Claire Underwood’s residence, Zoe Barnes’ apartment, Freddy’s BBQ Rib Joint, The Clean Water Initiative Building Where Claire works, The Washington Herald offices, the Washington Opera House, the Secretary of State’s building, Cotesworth Hotel, The Georgetown Hotel, Werner’s Bar, Tio Pepe’s, The DuPont Circle Bar, Peter Russo’s Campaign in Pennsylvania and The Sentinel (Military Academy) S Francis J. Underwood Library and Waldron Hall in South Carolina . ^[26]

Most of the interior scenes in House of Cards are filmed in a large industrial warehouse, ^[27] which is located in Joppa, Maryland , also in Harford County, which is about 17 miles north east of Baltimore. ^[27] [28] The warehouse is used for the filming of Reviews some of the MOST iconic scenes of the series, Such As the full-scale reconstruction of MOST of the West Wing of the White House , Including the Oval Office , ^[29] The Congressional offices and corridors, the wide ‘Slugline’ open-plan office interior, and interiors such as the large townhouse of the Underwood residence and a large loft apartment.

The series uses the screen to increase the live action, inserting views of outdoor scenes in windows and broadcast images on TV monitors, often in post-production . The production designer, Steve Arnold, also describes in detail the use of a three-sided green screen to insert the scenes outside the windows, with synchronized LED screens above the car (and out of camera shot) Actors and parts of the car, such as window frames: “All the driving in the show, anything in the vehicle is done on stage, in a room that is a big three-sided green screen. Actors in the car, and the cameras are set up around them.We have a very long strips of LED monitors hung above the car. To drive around and shoot for what you see outside when you’re driving. And that is fed into the LED screens above the car. So as the scene is progressing, the LED screens are synched up to emit interactive light to match the light conditions you see in the scenery you’re driving past (that will be added in post). All the reflections on the car windows, the window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. ^{It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate. ” [27]} So as the scene is progressing, the LED screens are synched up to emit interactive light to match the light conditions you see in the scenery you’re driving past (that will be added in post). All the reflections on the car windows, the window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. ^{It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate. ” [27]} So as the scene is progressing, the LED screens are synched up to emit interactive light to match the light conditions you see in the scenery you’re driving past (that will be added in post). All the reflections on the car windows, the window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. ^{It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate. ” [27]} The window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. ^{It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate. ” [27]} The window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. ^{It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate. ” [27]}

In June 2014, the filming of three episodes in the UN Security Council was vetoed by Russia at the last minute. ^[30] However, in the case of the UN Building, ^[31] In August 2014, the show has filmed “mock motorcade-scene” in Washington, DC ^[31] In December 2014, the show filmed in Espanola , Santa Fe , and Las Vegas, New Mexico . ^[32] [33]