EPISODE
House of Cards - Season 1
The schemes of a ruthlessly ambitious British politician who will stop at nothing to get to the top.
20 October 1929, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
April 10, 1944 in Wakefield, England, UK
September 10, 1912 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
22 July 1944, Bristol, England, UK
8 July 1933, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, UK
1956, Portishead, Somerset, England, UK
23 October 1947, Zimbabwe
April 09, 2019
House of Cards is no less than evil at its grandest, bolstered by one sterling performance after another as it moves smoothly toward its jolting conclusion.
April 09, 2019
This sustained misanthropy is at first invigorating; American television is always so careful to include at least one character we can identify with, or feel represents Good, that Davies' cynicism is refreshing.
April 09, 2019
The timely potboiler becomes surprisingly compelling. Much of the credit belongs to Ian Richardson's scarily perfect performance as Francis Urquhart.
April 09, 2019
Rarely has anything this side of Le Carre contained so many tantalizing twists... It's all managed in plausible manner, too, thanks to a stunning script by Andrew Davis.
April 09, 2019
Richardson's Francis Urquhart reminds us that his is the nation whose imagination produced Iago, and Uriah Heep, and Kingsley Amis's Dixon. This comedy here is truly cruel -- and, one layer down, even bleaker and more squalid than it seems at first.
