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The first and best of the series is House of Cards, a sophisticated political thriller that follows the rise to power of Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a conservative chief whip who uses a secret liaison with Mattie Storin (Susannah Harker), an attractive young journalist, to help him become prime minister in post-Thatcher 1990s England. Richardson turns in a masterful performance, often speaking directly to the camera as he conjures a larger-than-life politician whose brilliance is matched only by his glee at the public manipulations, private subterfuge -- and murder -- involved in his Machiavellian ambitions. The second series, To Play the King, finds Urquhart comfortably in power, bedding another young and beautiful protégée (Kitty Aldridge) but clashing with the newly crowned king (a thinly veiled caricature of the current Prince of Wales). And The Final Cut finds Urquhart more than a decade into his stewardship of the realm, sparking a Falklands-style conflict in Cyprus to hold on to his job, even as he's dogged by some decades-old skeletons. While To Play the King and The Final Cut veer a bit toward melodrama instead of cloak-and-dagger thrills, the force of Richardson's Mephistophelean presence remains undiminished. Richardson's Urquhart is an archetypal seducer, and while the father/daughter relationship in House of Cards is the most intriguing (in bed, Mattie calls Urquhart "Daddy"), each of the two sequels involves a similar sexual conquests. Politically, screenwriter Andrew Davies's liberalism makes the entire series significantly less sympathetic to the Tory agenda than were the novels of the conservative Dobbs. But political agendas ultimately take a backseat to the rampant political wheeling and dealing -- and to that titillating, incestuous mix of business and pleasure. The result is an utterly engrossing walk down rat-infested subterranean corridors of power -- part Shakespeare, part Woodward and Bernstein, and devilish fun through and through. 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