version of House of Cards, in which Kevin Spacey, the producer of the project, stars as the ultimate anti-hero, Francis Underwood.
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(HBO has done well with a similar remake, Veep, inspired by the British series The Thick of It.) Accordingly, it ordered up a U.S. Audiences apparently related to a political show that did not take itself very seriously and lampooned the usual self-seriousness and implied nobility of political drama. Netflix has bragged that it used its vast viewer data to pinpoint House of Cards for remake. It was the ultimate and satisfying satire of someone who would truly do anything for power - with a wife who turned out to be even more ruthless than him. House of Cards began life as a British series about the rise of not just an amoral politician, but a murderous one. The characters in this third season have the same names but aren't the same people as in the first two seasons. But the new House of Cards - its 13 episodes became available for viewing last Friday - is turned inside out. But with significant franchises, usually the worse you can expect is the uninspired, or more of the same. The competitive barrier gets much higher when you become a brand that represents, well, must-see TV.įlops do happen, of course.
Anybody can make deals as a secondary distributor of movies and TV shows on the Internet - Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Comcast all headed on board. Its effort to position itself as an HBO competitor, if not killer, rests with its ability as a programmer.
House of Cards has been the Netflix flag, the credential upon which it went from video reseller to tastemaker and show business force. What does it mean for Netflix that the third season of House of Cards is no good? No, no, not just no good, but incompetent, a shambles, lost. Watch Video: Trailer: 'House of Cards': Season 3