Diabolical House of Cards Ads in D.C. Metro Reference a Crime Committed There on the Show

Underwood is 'a push in the right direction'

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New ads for House of Cards reference a now-infamous scene early in Season 2 where—spoiler alert—Frank Underwood pushes a certain aquaintance in front of a D.C. Metro train. Meant to look like political ads, they depict Kevin Spacey as the fictional Underwood and the tagline, "A push in the right direction." 

Get it? (We don't know why they didn't just toss in a companion flipbook in which Underwood winks and nudges at the viewer.) 

The ads are appearing in actual D.C.

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