House of cards and Shakespeare

I liked the first two seasons. It was truly a take on Richard III (including Shakespearean speeches to the audience).*

Season 3, however, I didn't really like -like many others on the Internet (no point being different all the time). 

It's still Shakespearean but now it's 'the Scottish play' complete with Lady Macbeth going slightly mental when she has the power.

I always jokingly refer to Shakespeare as a fan fiction writer. The minute a fan fiction writes has reached his or her goal (shipping characters together or whatnot) there aren't any goals anymore and the story becomes boring.

Shakespeare solved this quite easily in a lot of his work by using a handy tool called ‘death’: Hamlet wants revenge, the minute he has it he dies. Macbeth and Richard III want the crown the minute they got it they get overthrown and die.

Now, Shakespeare could have easily have ended the story the minute Richard III got the crown. But that wouldn't give the audience a sense of justice.

House of cards suffer the same 'fan fiction' problem. Frank Underwood now has the crown. The audience is now waiting for his comeuppance.

Every story with a goal set in stone at the very beginning should end the minute that goal is reached (That's why the Walking Dead -or any soap opera- is such a safe bet. The goal is to survive -and they'll never reach that.). The longer it is going to take for Frank Underwood to pay the piper the more boring the show will become. So it’s time for the show runners to start introducing some real potential MacDuff’s to thwart him.

*Now I'm not trying to be all clever. There are more then enough people online claiming the same.