@censorshipsucks06 said:

When Claire told Donald Blythe

_"You're a fool. You always were. You and your dumb dead wife you never shut up about". _

WOW! Talk about going for the jugular.

That was Claire really dropping the facade as she poised herself. The student must now become the master, and Frank really is good with words.

I felt it was very out of character for her.

The Underwoods suffered Donald Blythe for years, even though he was occasionally known to develop ideas of his own, probably in view that a self-important buffoon like him can be very useful in the right hands from time to time. They do not stand to benefit in any way if they let the cat out of the bag now. Very un-Machiavellian.

And I don't believe that Claire, who would barely even blink when her college rapist General Dalton McGinnis was being decorated by her husband, could not control exactly what she wanted to say in a situation like this.

The barrage of insults was fun to listen to though.

@Papshmir said:

I felt it was very out of character for her.

The Underwoods suffered Donald Blythe for years, even though he was occasionally known to develop ideas of his own, probably in view that a self-important buffoon like him can be very useful in the right hands from time to time. They do not stand to benefit in any way if they let the cat out of the bag now. Very un-Machiavellian.

And I don't believe that Claire, who would barely even blink when her college rapist General Dalton McGinnis was being decorated by her husband, could not control exactly what she wanted to say in a situation like this.

The barrage of insults was fun to listen to though.

Yes it was really out of character, I was quite shocked. Like I said, she dropped the facade but only to let the "other Claire" out for a test run so to speak. She knows she now has to be ruthless at times and she is a woman who has to deal with, I assume, a lot of misogynists.

I loved this moment and I don't think it was all that out of character for her at all. We know she is ruthless, it's just that everyone is on the "hate Frank" train and she wasn't having it. It seemed very true to her real character to me and it was brutal.

While one may view others as being misogynists, I find she is highly respected, but this moment was just her truly owning her power. Why can Frank be the only nasty one?