Netflix online viewing: BBC - The House of Cards Trilogy

[Elidor]

This is an hypnotic little psychodrama featuring Ian Richardson as a brilliantly slimy Tory prime minister who can only find meaning in life by imposing his personal power against everyone around him: colleagues, countrymen and king. He delights in absolute corruption, and traffics in personal destruction, both figuratively and literally.

I've only seen part II of this so far and it's delightfully wicked. A great cast, great writing and characterization.

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/House_of_Cards_Trilogy_II_To_Play_the_King/60029606?trkid=438381&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1649566290_2_0

[MaineDem]

1. I loved it.

I saw it on PBS years ago and I watched it again online with Netflix. Mr Urquart is totally corrupt but, as you said, delightfully wicked.

[Elidor]

2. I've seen about nine hours of this so far, and it just keeps getting better

Written by a former Chief of Staff to Margaret Thatcher, who apparently used him roughly at times.

Oh, man, this bit from The Final Cut Pt. II had me in stitches. Urquhart and his wife are discussing a memorial to Margaret Thatcher:

Elizabeth: The Margaret Thatcher Memorial. Is there really no way of preventing it?

Francis: It would seem not. It's all been paid for out of the Foundation, and the site was earmarked 15 years ago, apparently. For a time there seemed some possibility of putting it up in Grantham. Where no one would have to look at it.

Elizabeth: Except the unfortunate inhabitants. Where is Grantham, anyway?

Francis: No one seems quite sure.

Elizabeth: Couldn't the Arts Council do something about it?

Francis: You forget, my dear, we abolished the Arts Council a year ago.

:rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Amazon UK has the whole trilogy on sale for £17.97

or $26.95.

It has a lot of other great bargains, too, such as all 33 episodes of Inspector Morse for £43.88 ($65.82), which is less than what you pay for a single four-episode set here in the U.S.

You can play these disks on a region-free or hacked DVD player, or else you can play them on a Mac, as long as you don't play any Region 1 (North American) disks on it. I don't know about PCs.

[friendly_iconoclast]

4. PC folks can use an external DVD-ROM drive

As long as the only video DVDs you play on that one particular drive are Region 2, you're gold.
A cheapo one will do.

As for region-free DVD, you can go really cheap (Philips,Coby, Akai,etc) or pricey (Oppo, Denon Industrial). For some reason, there's very little in the midrange