EPISODE
House of Cards - Season 1
The schemes of a ruthlessly ambitious British politician who will stop at nothing to get to the top.
5 March 1932, Czechoslovakia
16 May 1941, England, UK
12 October 1944, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
22 July 1944, Bristol, England, UK
20 July 1927, Edmonton, Middlesex, London, England, UK
8 March 1940, England, UK
1956, Portishead, Somerset, England, UK
13 June 1950, Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, UK
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
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.
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
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
The timely potboiler becomes surprisingly compelling. Much of the credit belongs to Ian Richardson's scarily perfect performance as Francis Urquhart.
