House of Cards gets open airing on Netflix

The American version of House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and Kate Mara premieres in all Netflix territories today with the first episode available to non-members for a month.

“The creative team in front of and behind the camera have delivered a riveting 13-chapter narrative that we’re proud to present to Netflix members today, said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix. “By offering the first episode for free, including to non-members, we are opening up this fascinating world for everyone to see and are confident they’ll want more.”

Current Netflix members are now able to watch the entire 13-episode first season of the drama programme, in territories where Netflix is available – U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Brazil and the Nordics. However the company is also making available to everyone in all Netflix territories the first episode of the critically-acclaimed drama at netflix.com/houseofcards.

House of Cards is based on the BBC miniseries of the same name. This wicked political drama starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and Kate Mara slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.

An uncompromising exploration of power, ambition and the American way, the programme orbits Francis Underwood (Spacey), the House Majority Whip. Underwood is the politician’s politician – masterful, beguiling, charismatic and ruthless. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire (Wright) stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy. In addition to Spacey, Wright and Mara, the series stars Corey Stoll (“Midnight in Paris”), Kristen Connolly (“The Cabin in the Woods”), Michael Kelly (“The Adjustment Bureau”) and Sakina Jaffrey (“Definitely Maybe”).

Episode one of House of Cards can be viewed for a month from today onwards at Netflix by non-subscribers.