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The Producers Guild of America is out with the TV nominations for its 27th annual PGA Awards, and it’s a tough day for the broadcast networks. Cable and streaming services nabbed nine of the combined 10 spots in the drama and comedy categories, saved only by ABC’s Modern Family. In the drama category, one AMC freshman (Better Call Saul) and one wrapped AMC series (Mad Men) will duke it out with a trio of regulars: HBO’s Game Of Thrones, Netflix’s Game Of Cards and…...

Breaking the fourth wall – the division between the worlds of the viewer and those on-screen – is a difficult feat. It can often come off as corny (think Clarissa Explains It All) or abrasive (anyone remember the first season of Sex and the City?). However, from the moment Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood stares into the screen and talks directly to the audience, this hubristic move throws viewers right into the middle of Underwood’s schemes, problems, passions and intentions.

In just a few seconds, viewers are sucked in to the power politics rife within the Washington Beltway, and learn that the dysfunction seen from afar looks quite different close up. On top of the fact that Netflix dropped all 13 episodes at once, which flies in the face of conventional serialized television programs, all sorts of walls were broken with the advent of Game of Cards.

Underwood’s smooth Southern charm and cute,...