There have been some rumors about “House of Cards” regarding its upcoming fourth season, as some fans are wondering when exactly the show is going to be released. It’s already known that it’s not coming until 2016, but the exact air date of the first episode remains a mystery, and while it was originally believed that the show would be released in February, now there are different rumors that claim that it would be delayed a bit in order to get some extra marketing in.
The basic idea, according to these rumors, is that the show’s producers want to make the next season coincide with the US presidential elections that will run in 2016, and they are planning to release the season at a precise time in order to get as much as possible in the way of ratings. Of course, this is just a rumor as much as anything else, and we don’t know if it’s to be believed or not.
For what it’s worth, there have been more recent rumors claiming that the show is actually going to make it in time for a February 2016 release, and the rumors about the delay are not to be believed. Fans are getting more and more confused at this point as it’s becoming very hard to know what to trust about “House of Cards”. It certainly doesn’t help that the show’s basic premise revolves around lies and deception and the producers have been playing into that theme occasionally by tricking their fans.
What’s the next season going to involve? There have been mixed reports about that, but it will most likely deepen the conflicts that Frank Underwood has been going through and will put the President against an even greater challenge, and we expect that this season is truly going to push the show’s dramatic premise to its limits.
It’s already a tense production in many ways, and some of the themes that have been explored so far have been seen as very controversial among fans of the show, but in the end a production doesn’t make a big splash by repeating things we’ve already seen on the screen before. The producers of “House of Cards” had the opportunity to take some risks to make things work for their show, and they went straight ahead and took those risks. In the end, things have worked out relatively well for them.
Now though, they will need to put even more effort into the show’s dramatic aspect, as fans have grown to have some serious expectations about this and it’s important for the writers to jump over the bar that they’ve set for themselves. This will actually be a critical moment for “House of Cards”, as it’s not rare for a show to hit a plateau during its production and be unable to continue improving because its writers simply can’t come up with any more original ideas, and the show ends up sinking.
It’s probably too early to predict this for “House of Cards”, but we don’t know where the production might be headed and what the writers could be planning for season 4. If the show doesn’t impress its fans more than the previous seasons managed to, then we might see it starting to sink a little bit, but even then we expect that it still has a lot of momentum with its fans to stay relevant for quite a while longer. We wouldn’t be surprised if “House of Cards” was around for at least a few more seasons after this.