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 July 1927, Edmonton, Middlesex, London, England, UK
2 July 1931, London, England, UK
20 November 1936, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
April 17, 1924 in Great Bridge, Staffordshire, England, UK
26 April 1965, London, England, UK
September 10, 1912 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
12 October 1944, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
2 June 1943, Turkey
17 April 1944, Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK
April 10, 1944 in Wakefield, England, UK
13 September 1925, Holborn, London, England, UK
20 October 1929, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
1956, Portishead, Somerset, England, UK
3 May 1948, Manchester, England, UK
9 September 1935, Madaba, Jordan
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
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
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
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.
