For a brief period last night, the first ten episodes of the third season of House of Cards were available to watch on Netflix.
The episodes have since been removed because Netflix flagship series doesn't officially arrive until Friday the 27th of February. However the real question is was this a genuine mistake, a Washington-style leak or a co-ordinated publicity stunt. Since the crucial final three episodes, in which we will presumably discover the final fate of President Underwood, were not available, we're going to go with the latter. Call us cynical if you like but we think it's a stunt and, frankly (if you'll excuse the pun), it worked with the show getting loads of coverage this morning on all media outlets including us. We think Frank would be pleased...
Call us cynical but this has got publicity stunt written all over it and, frankly, it worked!
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