He confirmed the final season will indeed bring jobs back to the thousands of Baltimore residents who depend on that gig for work, though perhaps unfortunately, we won’t get the usual 13-episode season that Netflix usually allots its biggest dramas.
Though there was some temporary worry that Netflix might decide to completely shelve Season 6 in the midst of Kevin Spacey’s scandal, Ted Sarandos eased those kinds of pessimistic thoughts during UBS’s Global Media and Communications Conference in New York (via Deadline).
Instead, House of Cards will bow out with an eight-episode season devoted to Claire Underwood, and though it wasn’t specifically reported why five episodes were cut from the original order, we’re betting it has something to do with the delays that have already cut into over a month of the season’s production shoot.