Season five picks up where season four left off: in the midst of a tense presidential election that puts the Underwoods on the same ticket against energetic Republican upstart Will Conway. Viewers will see how their heated campaigns play out as well as which alliances dissolve in the aftermath. Perhaps the biggest question is if Frank and Claire’s relationship is among them.

Walt is faced with the prospect of moving on in a world without his enemy. As the pressure of a criminal life starts to build, Skyler struggles to keep Walt’s terrible secrets. Facing resistance from sometime adversary and former Fring lieutenant Mike, Walt tries to keep his world from falling apart even as his DEA Agent brother in law, Hank, finds numerous leads that could blaze a path straight to Walt. 

Volatile CIA agent Carrie Mathison investigates and ultimately becomes obsessed with returned POW marine Nicholas Brody, who may or may not be an al-Qaeda-trained terrorist. Brody struggles to resume his domestic life with his wife and two children whom he barely knows. Saul tries his best to support his bipolar protégé while pursuing leads of his own and trying to hold his crumbling marriage together.

Mysteries abound on the first season of LOST as the survivors of Oceanic Air flight 815 find themselves stranded on an unidentified island with little hope of rescue.

Set 18 months after season 7, the story arc involves Jack Bauer contending with assassination threats made during a peace conference between President of the United States Allison Taylor and President Omar Hassan of the fictional Islamic Republic of Kamistan (IRK). The season is set in New York City, with CTU's New York City Office having been re-activated,

1942年，瓜达卡纳尔岛，美军陆战第1师占领了该岛上的日军机场，由此拉开了太平洋战争上的战略对日大反攻。三个美军海军陆战队士兵莱基、斯莱治和巴斯龙在太平洋上经历了二战时期最为惨烈的太平洋战争。在太平洋上，日本陆军骄横狂妄，对美军发起了猛烈的攻势，期间不乏使用自杀式的袭击。从惨烈的瓜达卡纳尔岛战役、格洛斯特角登陆战，及热带丛林战役，贝里琉岛争夺战，到硫磺岛战役直至冲绳岛战役。莱基（詹姆斯·贝吉·戴尔 James Badge Dale 饰）、斯莱治（约瑟夫·梅泽罗 Joseph Mazzello 饰）和巴斯龙（乔恩·塞达 Jon Seda 饰）见证了日军的负隅顽抗直至最后的溃败，也亲眼看到战友不断的在这惨烈的战斗中牺牲。作为最贵的二战美剧，HBO为此耗资2.23亿美元，这也是斯皮尔伯格与汤姆·汉克斯继《兄弟连》之后的再次联手。

Counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer attempts to stop the assassination of United States Senator David Palmer on the day of the California presidential primary, while those spearheading the assassination plot stop at nothing to exact revenge on Bauer and Palmer.