In the beginning of the season, I had my doubts. I got into my head that they were going to completely botch the final season, which would be a shame. As the season progressed, I found myself able to overlook the absence of Kevin Spacey. That's not to say it wouldn't have been 10x better with him, but it was truly great ending with what they had. People are complaining about how it's a shame that they made this season, but I think the real shame is peoples blatant disregard to acknowledge all that they did do, just because of Spacey's absence. People have given 1's and 3's, which, having read their reviews, I can tell you is not necessarily out of crappy production, but their detest for the show without Spacey. And even if they think it's poor production, I think that a lot of people went into the season expecting it to be bad, and didn't even try to like it.