NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – ‘House of Cards’ Netflix is back for a third season, and binge ahead.
If you’re avoiding spoilers, can be sure that there are none here. As the creator of the program says Beau Willimon, a turn that is not coming is “magical.”
“I’m going to sound a little corny here,” Willimon said, “but it’s a magical thing to experience a surprising element of the story for the first time and it is really amazing. It’s like a spell. It’s kind of act of voodoo. It’s that thing that happens to you as a viewer, you can never have again, because now you know now. ”
In an interview with CNNMoney, Willimon spoke of the importance of the third season, which debuted full on Friday morning and how the very word ‘television’ is being redefined.
“ Does ‘TV’ really is still applicable?”
‘House of Cards’ is what Willimon called “a change of paradigm in the way people consume entertainment. ” Not everyone watching the third season will see all the episodes at once, but many will; and what matters is the choice.
The arrival of new distribution options like Netflix are causing people in the industry “question everything” Willimon said. “All the timing of how programs are released” can be reinvented it added.
So also “the length of programs. I mean, have much more limited series now, which I think is a direct result of binge eating, in fact, because people are essentially watching a movie six or eight hours. ”
“I think it has forced us, in a good way, to ask what constitutes a television program,” he added. “Does ‘TV’ really still applies? Are we simply telling a lot of different types of stories in different formats?. ”
“Some television shows have ads. Some do not. Some are completely premiered immediately. Some are premiered every week. That puts us in a position to question everything, and that’s exciting, “he said.
Frank Underwood, inspired by past presidents
‘House of Cards’ calls his episodes ‘chapters’, like a book. In season, the protagonist Frank Underwood is now president of the United States, and is not “easy way” for him, Willimon said.
He said that “a good analogy might be Lyndon Johnson after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He had much to accomplish in a very short amount of time, not necessarily had the support of everyone in Washington. It is an almost impossible position to be in. ”
The program writers are inspired from previous presidencies as well, such as “Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman, and all the past to Lincoln and Jefferson, and Washington, and all those guys “he said.
A program writers like to see a famous speech of Stephen Colbert
The inspiration for the series comes from many places besides presidential history.
The writers have become a tradition see the speech Dinner White House Correspondents’ Association of Stephen Colbert in 2006, before the start of each season.
Why? “There is something dangerous in that speech,” said Willimon.
In Colbert, “You have a guy saying some very funny things, but also some things that were too important to be fun, and saying them in the face of a president. Now, in terms of power, in terms of using a time, in terms of not leaving anything on the table and remove the kid gloves, that kind of energy, that kind of courage, and also that some ability to Stephen Colbert not take himself too seriously when it comes to serious matters; the balance of all that, I was just kind of like, a perfect moment. It’s great to see something of perfection when you you strive for it in your own projects. ”
Why the presidents of real life are attracted to ‘ House of Cards’?
Willimon said thinks that many politicians “wanted to be so brazen in its strategy as it is Francis Underwood”.
The producers and stars of the show were thrilled when President Obama tweeted about the premiere of the second season a year ago. So, asked the president advances of the third season?
“Well, you’d have to ask the White House,” Willimon said slyly. So, that’s a maybe? “It’s a maybe,” he said.
Willimon dodged another question: Will there be a fourth season of ‘House of Cards’? Flatly refused to say yes or no.
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