The Threat (and Thrill) of Netflix
“Everybody — everybody — wanted us to do a pilot except for Netflix,” says House of Cards star and producer Kevin Spacey (second from left), photographed May 11 on the Baltimore set with (from left) co-star Robin Wright, Arrested Development’s Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. “Netflix said, ‘We believe in you, we believe in David [Fincher], we believe in the series, so how many [episodes] do you want to do?’ ”