Over the weekend, allegations arose against Kevin Spacey by actor Anthony Rapp, who detailed an encounter that took place when the latter was just 14 years old. Today, Netflix has announced that the next season of “House Of Cards” will be its last. You do the math.
The streaming service has announced that next year’s sixth season will be the last chapter in the story of the Underwoods. Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese have taken over showrunning duties from Beau Willimon, who left the show after season five, and the suggestion by THR is that it was the plan all along to end the series next year. But the timing is certainly….interesting….coming right on the heels of the ongoing Spacey controversy. The political drama is a flagship series for Netflix, and it’s a loss no matter how it ends, but with their lead actor and star in a harsh spotlight at the moment, embroiled in an issue that doesn’t look like it’ll be going away anytime soon for Hollywood, it could leave an ugly legacy on show.
No debut date has been given just yet for “House Of Cards” season six, but it’s expected to arrive in 2018. However, at the moment, Kevin Spacey is not on the set of the production.
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After that aweful fifth season, the only thing that could make me watch the sixth was the fact that it was the last.
This announcement smacks of the current wave of eye-watering self-righteousness flowing out of Hollywood post this whole Weinstein thing. Netflix are clearly using the Spacey controversy as a way of proving they’re on the right side of the fence – but it was also clearly a decision that had already been made for entirely different reasons (no doubt that it was simply getting more expensive while simultaneously falling in quality – i.e. an entirely economic one), and someone in PR thought it would be a smart idea to tack it onto their denouncement of Spacey’s behaviour.
Yes, all of the accusations against all of these guys (Weinstein, Price et al) speak to some truly evil and reprehensible institutionalized behaviour, and they deserve everything that’s coming to them and more, but Hollywood’s response to it is what truly reveals the endemic problem in the culture. It was the same with the whole Oscars so white controversy, and the same with controversies around the lack of women in the industry – the response to the issue says less about a desire to solve a problem and more about PR – and as such speaks to the real insidious, hypocritical nature of the industry.