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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 13009
    #1

    BBC House of Cards

    The 1990's series with Ian Richardson. Just re-viewing by chance.
    Hmm. And wow!

    Given what is happening in our UK politics today............scarily prescient.
    Brilliantly written and acted too.
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  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
    Gone fishin'
    • Sep 2011
    • 30163
    #2
    You may think that; you may very well think that ...
    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163
      #3
      (Or, in other words:

      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Pabmusic
        Full Member
        • May 2011
        • 5537
        #4
        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
        ...scarily prescient ...
        As one who worked in that milieu from the late 1990s, I couldn't possibly comment.

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8859
          #5
          I recently bought all 3 series in a local charity shop for the princely sum of £3 and greatly enjoyed watching them again. Scarily prescient indeed! Ian Richardson always played the villain to perfection, I thought, although he could also do satirical comedy, for example as in 'Porterhouse Blue'.

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          • underthecountertenor
            Full Member
            • Apr 2011
            • 1586
            #6
            Everyone raves about the US version (or at least did until the allegations against Kevin Spacey), but very few people seem to credit the brilliance of the BBC original.

            Incidentally, did you mean to post this on The Choir? Can't remember if there was any choral music in it.

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            • Vox Humana
              Full Member
              • Dec 2012
              • 1261
              #7
              The original BBC version was indeed brilliant. I'm sure this was in no small part due to the fact that the author had been an advisor to Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party Chief of Staff. You can't help but feel that there's a lot of truth underpinning his fiction.

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              • DracoM
                Host
                • Mar 2007
                • 13009
                #8
                Woops....sorry, wrong Forum block!
                POsted it out of sheer unthinking reflex.

                Apologies all.

                Not worth moving it now...........??

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8859
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Vox Humana View Post
                  The original BBC version was indeed brilliant. I'm sure this was in no small part due to the fact that the author had been an advisor to Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party Chief of Staff. You can't help but feel that there's a lot of truth underpinning his fiction.
                  It was a brave man - or woman - who chose to refer to the PM by his initials.....

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                  • underthecountertenor
                    Full Member
                    • Apr 2011
                    • 1586
                    #10
                    Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                    Woops....sorry, wrong Forum block!
                    POsted it out of sheer unthinking reflex.

                    Apologies all.

                    Not worth moving it now...........??
                    To be honest, if you hadn't posted it here I almost certainly wouldn't have seen it!

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