Showtime Axes House of Lies – No Season 6
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Series info, plot and cast
An American comedy television series House of Lies has been on the air since 2012. It's based on the book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, authored by former management consultant Martin Kihn. The series is cerated by Matthew Carnahan, executive produced by Carnahan, Jessica Borsiczky and Stephen Hopkins and produced by Crescendo Productions, Totally Commercial Films, Refugee Productions, Matthew Carnahan Circus Products and Showtime Networks. The current fifth season was released on April 10, 2016.
The show features a group of ruthless and manipulative management consultants driven to succeed and ready to stop at nothing on their path. Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle) is at the center of the storyline, along with his colleagues and family members, The rest of the cast includes Kirsten Bell, Ben Schwartz, Josh Lawson, Dawn Olivieri, Donis Leonard Jr., among others.
Awards, viewership and possible renewal
House of Lies has been nominated for many awards, with Don Cheadle receiving a Golden Globe and a NAACP Image Award for his outstanding lead performance. The show has initially received mixed reviews, and holds a 7.4/10 IMDb score and a Metascore of 63%. The present fifth season is averaging approximately a 0.18 rating and 400,000 viewers per episode. It is not on top of Showtime's scripted series rating list, but seems to have its audience. Viewership did experience a significant drop compared to the last installment, which averaged 584,000 viewers and a 0.25 rating last year. Whether or not the current viewership is enough to sustain the series for another season, is difficult to say at this point, but we'l be sure to bring you the latest news as soon as they become available.
Season 5 recap
A 10-season fifth season of the popular American comedy series House of Lies has wrapped up on Showtime on June 12, 2016. The series finale concluded a 58-episode that spanned 4 years and featured the antics of a group of immoral, albeit rather successful management consultants. The ending episode portrayed a major transformation that Marty Kaan underwent, actually seeming to become more of a human being than ever before. He declines a lucrative deal, which, if signed, would effectively subject Cuban economy to imperialist rule, and he, for a change, wants nothing to do with a transaction that would be financially viable, yet violate his principles (yes, it turns out that he has principles!). In another unexpected move, he proposes to Jeannie and she accepts. Although everything, including the instant marriage, occurs under the influence of multiple mojitos, neither one regrets their decision in the morning, although it takes both of them some time to reconstruct the previous evening. Thus a happy ending, and they sail off into the sunset. Farewell, House of Lies, since, as we have already reported, Showtime has canceled the show due to viewership issues. The fifth season has experienced a significant decline in ratings compared to the previous installment, where some of the episodes have peaked at over a million viewers. The last completed season premiered to 399,000 viewers, and bowed out with merely 307,000.
Latest news
UPDATED May 18, 2016: The ruthless management consultants of House of Lies are wrapping up their business, since, as Showtime has announced, the series' fifth season will be its last. On Sunday, June 12 at 9pm the series finale will be aired, and the show will bow out for good. The series' finale shooting location was Cuba, the first American scripted show to be filmed there since the diplomatic relations were restored between the two countries . Low ratings are the most likely reason for the cancelation, as the current fifth season has lost almost 30% of its audience when compared to the previous chapter.
Episodes
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creative Destruction Phenomenon | Apr 10, 2016 |
| 2 | Game Theory | Apr 17, 2016 |
| 3 | Holacracy | Apr 24, 2016 |
| 4 | End State Vision | May 1, 2016 |
| 5 | Above Board Metrics | May 8, 2016 |
| 6 | Johari Window | May 15, 2016 |
| 7 | One-Eighty | May 22, 2016 |
| 8 | Tragedy of the Commons | May 29, 2016 |
| 9 | Violent Agreement | Jun 5, 2016 |
| 10 | No es Facil | Jun 12, 2016 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | At the End of the Day, Reality Wins | Jan 11, 2015 |
| 2 | I'm a Motherfucking Scorpion, That's Why | Jan 18, 2015 |
| 3 | Entropy is Contagious | Jan 25, 2015 |
| 4 | We Can Always Just Overwhelm the Vagus Nerve with Another Sensation | Feb 1, 2015 |
| 5 | The Urge to Save Humanity is Almost Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule | Feb 8, 2015 |
| 6 | Trust Me, I'm Getting Plenty of Erections | Feb 15, 2015 |
| 7 | The Next Olive Branch Goes Straight Up Your Ass | Mar 1, 2015 |
| 8 | He Didn't Mean That, Natalie Portman | Mar 8, 2015 |
| 9 | We're Going to Build a Mothership and Rule the Universe | Mar 15, 2015 |
| 10 | Praise Money! Hallowed Be Thy Name | Mar 22, 2015 |
| 11 | Everything's So Fucking Obvious, I'm Starting to Wonder Why We're Even Having This Conversation | Mar 29, 2015 |
| 12 | You're Safely Sucking at the Triple-Venti Tits of The New Kaan & Associates | Mar 29, 2015 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wreckage | Jan 12, 2014 |
| 2 | Power | Jan 19, 2014 |
| 3 | Boom | Jan 26, 2014 |
| 4 | Associates | Feb 2, 2014 |
| 5 | Soldiers | Feb 9, 2014 |
| 6 | Middlegame | Feb 16, 2014 |
| 7 | Pushback | Feb 23, 2014 |
| 8 | Brinkmanship | Mar 9, 2014 |
| 9 | Zhang | Mar 16, 2014 |
| 10 | Comeuppance | Mar 23, 2014 |
| 11 | Together | Mar 30, 2014 |
| 12 | Joshua | Apr 6, 2014 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stochasticity | Jan 13, 2013 |
| 2 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Planet | Jan 20, 2013 |
| 3 | Man-date | Jan 27, 2013 |
| 4 | Damonschildren.org | Feb 10, 2013 |
| 5 | Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business | Feb 17, 2013 |
| 6 | Family Values | Feb 24, 2013 |
| 7 | The Runner Stumbles | Mar 3, 2013 |
| 8 | Wonders of the World | Mar 10, 2013 |
| 9 | Liability | Mar 17, 2013 |
| 10 | Exit Strategy | Mar 24, 2013 |
| 11 | Hostile Takeover | Mar 31, 2013 |
| 12 | Til Death Do Us Part | Apr 7, 2013 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments | Jan 8, 2012 |
| 2 | Amsterdam | Jan 15, 2012 |
| 3 | Microphallus | Jan 22, 2012 |
| 4 | Mini-Mogul | Jan 29, 2012 |
| 5 | Utah | Feb 5, 2012 |
| 6 | Our Descent Into Los Angeles | Feb 12, 2012 |
| 7 | Bareback Town | Feb 19, 2012 |
| 8 | Veritas | Mar 4, 2012 |
| 9 | Ouroboros | Mar 11, 2012 |
| 10 | Prologue and Aftermath | Mar 18, 2012 |
| 11 | Business | Mar 25, 2012 |
| 12 | The Mayan Apocalypse | Apr 1, 2012 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | House of Lies Live | Dec 31, 2013 |
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