More than 55,000 tweets about the show were sent in the hour after the new episodes appeared online. PHOTO: REUTERS
Netflix Inc’s political thriller House of Cards made a brief surprise return on Wednesday after the streaming service accidentally released new episodes of its flagship show, two weeks ahead of their scheduled debut, reported Reuters.
The third season of the drama, starring Kevin Spacey as scheming President Frank Underwood, was taken down within 20 minutes of its posting. Netflix blamed the incident on a technical malfunction. “Due to a technical glitch, some Frank Underwood fans got a sneak peak,” Netflix said in a statement. “He’ll be back on Netflix on February 27.”
News of the release quickly spread on Twitter, where fans said they were diving in to watch the series only to have it taken down. More than 55,000 tweets about the show were sent in the hour after the new episodes appeared online, Twitter said. Some viewers were able to keep streaming episodes that they had started watching before the new episodes were pulled. “This is Washington,” said a post on the official House of Cards Twitter feed. “There’s always a leak.”
Entertainment website vox.com lists the plot summaries for the first 10 episodes of the third season. It adds that most of the third season will centralise foreign policy and Russia. The website Mashable has uploaded scenes from the third season along with the description from an episode, which read that Underwood wants to introduce an ambitious jobs programme, while his wife Claire has set her sight on the United Nations. Another scene from the show that was uploaded online shows Underwood urinating on the grave of a person named Calvin Underwood.
House of Cards has received critical acclaim and has received several nominations, with the show becoming the first original online-only web television series to receive a major Primetime Emmy nomination.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 13th, 2015.
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