EPISODE
SEASON
House Of Cards - Season 1
House of Cards is the story of U.S. Rep. Francis Underwood of South Carolina who starts out as a ruthless politician seeking revenge when elected but someone tries to change his mind.
5 May 1975, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
21 March 1972, USA
11 July 1964, Laurel, Maryland, USA
25 March 1990, Shutesbury, Massachusetts, USA
January 31, 2013
It's a very promising start, at a minimum. The distribution model for House of Cards may be looking to reinvent how we watch TV, but the show itself feels very much of a piece with what we've been seeing for the last 10 or 15 years.
February 01, 2013
It's only a matter of time before they make at least one misstep and others start catching on to their game -- and it's hard to decide so early on whether it is a game we should be cheering for them to win.
February 06, 2013
Watch at whatever pace you'd like -- immediately. Given its quality, I think you'll be drinking it all in sooner rather than later.
March 03, 2013
Long story short, you owe it to yourself to watch House of Cards, simply because the horrors that are about to follow promise to be interesting enough to sign up for a NetFlix Instant account.
May 02, 2017
A middle section of six episodes gradually took hold, but only the final four instalments really made me want to keep watching, thanks chiefly to Corey Stoll's portrayal of self-destruction, a real tragedy, followed by growing tension in the plotting.
January 31, 2013
The show is dryly witty in its depiction of constancy and fidelity on the Potomac.
February 01, 2013
Spacey vacillates between chilling and charming, breaking the fourth wall to speak directly, confidentially, to the camera.
September 16, 2013
The production is gorgeous, the performances pristine. Nothing feels out of place, but nothing feels particularly vibrant, either.
November 17, 2015
The production values are lush, the pacing tight, the dialogue razor-sharp ("I love that woman," Underwood says of his wife at one point. "I love her more than sharks love blood"), the tone dark and delightfully nasty.
