Comments on: Netflix Will End ‘House Of Cards’ After Season 6 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/house-cards-season-6-last-20171030/ Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: jh https://staging2.theplaylist.net/house-cards-season-6-last-20171030/#comment-156209 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:23:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=375620#comment-156209 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.

]]> By: Pedro https://staging2.theplaylist.net/house-cards-season-6-last-20171030/#comment-156204 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:56:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=375620#comment-156204 After that aweful fifth season, the only thing that could make me watch the sixth was the fact that it was the last.

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