The first time in the US House of Cards that contains the original UK series' protagonist Francis Urquhart's signature line, "You might say that. I couldn't possibly comment."
The episode won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series and Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.
The first scene, with the dog hit by a car, is heavily influenced from an episode in Stephen King's novel Duma Key.
This is the second original series produced by Netflix. The first was Lilyhammer (2012), starring Steven Van Zandt as a mobster who must go into hiding in rural Norway.
Reed Birney & Rachel Brosnahan also appeared together on an episode of The Blacklist - episode 1.15, The Judge (No. 57) (2014).