system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[House of Cards] Is Frank Underwood able to deliberately break the 4th wall, are we simply seeing his thoughts in those moments, or is something else happening?
gpt
Before tv series there were movies and before movies there were plays, before plays there was your buddy telling you what was going through his head earlier when you both were at that thing. 


Its called an "aside". As in taking the audience aside to fill them in on more details.

He's not breaking the fourth wall, he remains in his own universe. You are the one who has left yours.