In the fifth season, the series has not disappointed and continues to seduce the viewer. In this, the essential topics are the manipulation of terrorism to obtain favorable situations, the distortion of the electoral results, the physical liquidation of some protagonists, the external interventions, the centers of parallel power, the threat of an internal coup, the "empeachment ", Which, as a whole, constitute a real leap forward of the protagonist couple and join those already present in other seasons: critiques of democracy, cunning and maneuverability coupled with the lack of scruples and the will of Power, constitute a kind of common denominator of the series.
There is something of "American history" this season: it is inevitable to remember - and the series has done so wisely - that what it presents to us are recent episodes of US politics. Or are we going to remember that George W. Bush won the presidential election after the country stayed almost a month attentive to the election results in Florida on which there was no way of reaching agreement and that it was, finally, Al Gore , Who closed a controversy that does not know how far he could have arrived, simply accepting his defeat? Are we going to forget that the entire eight-year period in which Bush sat in the "oval office" was presided over by the "anti-terrorist struggle" and by attacks that miraculously appeared to pave the way for any presidential adventure? Should we not remember how his predecessor, Bill Clinton, diverted attention from any criticism of his government by undertaking dramatic bombardments abroad that the Serbian people or the Iraqi people had to endure with their share of pain and death?