The fourth season of Netflix’s House of Cards was released for mass consumption a little over a week ago. By now you’ve certainly had a taste -- or a utensil-free, napkin-less binge -- and you too might have found yourself marveling at how good the show is again, especially in light of what came before. After two lackluster seasons, consensus was that the relatively young prestige show might have been a flash in the pan and many were ready to track House of Cards’ slow decline into tacky, high-production melodrama. Instead, we saw its glorious rise back into the high-production melodrama it was always meant to be.