Anybody watching House of Cards on Netflix?

[Bake]

If you're not, you should be! Kevin Spacey is superb as Dem. House Whip Francis Underwood, and he is one devious SOB! GREAT GREAT SHOW. My newest addiction.

It's like a book you can't put down. All the season 1 episodes are up on Netflix, and Mrs. B and I just binge watched last night. Now I'm pissed that I'm done with season 1 and it'll be months before season 2 comes out!!



Bake

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1. I'll have a look right now...

Thanks for the review.

[In_The_Wind]

2. little too busy now

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3. Superb series

Spacey and Wright will knock your socks off.

[Bake]

5. Excellent acting, excellent production, excellent writing

I'm amazed that Netflix shelled out the big bucks to make this series. I hope the don't pull the plug on it for a long, long time!

Bake

[Ptah]

4. House of Cards (UK TV series) is very good also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28UK_TV_series%29

House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC
in four episodes, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom. It was televised from 18 November to 9 December 1990,
to critical and popular acclaim. The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a
novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party
headquarters. Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service
in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels (To Play the King and The Final Cut).
The House of Cards trilogy was ranked 84th in the British Film Institute list of the
100 Greatest British Television Programmes.[1]


The antihero of House of Cards is Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip
of the Conservative Party, played by Ian Richardson. The plot follows his
amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party
and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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6. I was just going to post about this show.

I just finished a second binge viewing. Kevin Spacey's Underwood is so underhanded and clever. I find that I am angry at myself for rooting for the bastard! I like the moments of humanity, like the library dedication. His relationship with his wife Claire is intriguing, as well.

All the characters are so deep. Russo started out sort of boorish, but was becoming a tragic hero halfway through the series.

I'm waiting for season 2 eagerly.

[fizzgig]

7. i keep looking at it

and it's next on my list, i'm making my way through the david attenborough series right now

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8. Excellent series! Trenchant and witty, as only the English can be.

If you believe the sordid, amusing, and sometimes downright wicked elements featured in this series from across-the-pond are true-to-life, you may think their politicians are as bad as ours!

Urquhart (main character, Chief Whip,--cunning and conniving to a fault) maintains that, "After the silly season comes the conference season. Opposition did rather well this year. Abandoned their usual tactic of squabbling in public and shooting themselves in the foot and had a go at us, in particular the Prime Minister, very unsporting of them."

I'm sure most of you have heard Obama use the expression "silly season" more than once!

[snot]

9. We just finished watching the whole thing, and I'm so glad you asked.

SO many of the characters and so much of the story remind me of so many public figures --

Spacey as kind of a combination of Cheney and Tom Delay?
The pres kind of like BO?
The Spacey-Wright marriage kind of Clintonesque?
Zoe used like Judith Miller?
Etc.

With tons of Richard III and Macbeth thrown in.

I've really enjoyed it; it's the first thing I've seen that plausibly imagines what the insides of some of those public figures' minds might be like. And the picture the series paints of the ancillary worlds of the lobbyists, the press, and big charity really nails them.