Who does he think he is, the President of the United States? Oh, right.
Although a lot of you are probably still eagerly gobbling up Season Two of House of Cards after its Netflix release at the weekend, it can sometimes be tough being a TV addict.
As if waiting a week between shows wasn’t bad enough, the wait between seasons often seems like an eternity if there’s nothing to fill the void; the beginning of April certainly seems a long way away for Game of Thrones fans right now, for example.
It turns out that the most powerful man in the world is no different from the rest of us and having tweeted his desire to avoid House of Cards spoilers last week and spoken of his appreciation of Homeland in the past, it has emerged that Barack Obama was trying to steal a march on everyone else when asking HBO for some advance episodes of True Detective and Game of Thrones recently.
In a New York Times article about the rivalry between Netflix and HBO at the weekend, it was revealed in a short paragraph at the bottom of the piece that Obama asked HBO Chief Executive Officer Richard Plepler for advance copies of True Detective and Game of Thrones at a state dinner for French President Francois Hollande last week so he could watch them over President’s Day weekend.
The piece doesn’t reveal whether Obama’s request was granted or not, but while the True Detective request isn’t stretching it too much because the show’s first season is well underway at this stage, he’s pushing his luck a bit with Game of Thrones as Season Four doesn’t air on HBO until early April. The cheeky divil. We hope he was told where to get off and to make do with the brilliant-looking new trailer like the rest of us. Politely, of course.
Besides, you just know he’d be one of those annoying people on Twitter posting spoilers about certain episodes, or spoilers that the people posting spoilers say aren’t spoilers but really are spoilers because they indirectly spoil the fun for the people who have yet to watch the episode.
You know what we mean, right? Riigghhht?
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