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House of Cards
1990 · TV series · 55 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Andrew Davies
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
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No, that's not at all what happened. House of Cards was a highly regarded UK TV series from BBC (made in the early 1990s). Like many UK TV series, it was ripe for an American adaptation. Netflix won the bidding war for that adaptation.
Making up "famous" examples doesn't make your case stronger, but the opposite.
"The original 'House of Cards'" was this one[0] set in the UK. Presumably you're thinking of the US remake with Kevin Spacey.
[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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> Orange is the new black, daredevil, house of cards were all big hits.
The original version of House of Cards was a four episode mini-series. There was a lesson there that Netflix chose to ignore.
In some ways the 80's show is even more over the top than House of Cards but I only watched season 1 of the US version where they changed the pivotal death scene. It seemed like they were planting the seeds to match the UK series finale, though.
I was about to laugh at you for not realising that Netflix's House Of Cards is actually a remake of a BBC series from 1990, but on reflection that probably adds to your point.
Many British films of the 1950's and 60's (also being non-rigorous!) are morally very black and white, lots of war movies, but also things like the early James Bond films have an absolute faith that Britain was a world power, maybe alongside the US and USSR, but still important, whereas by the late 1980's that self confidence had pretty much gone and instead you get the shades of grey and cynicism of things like House Of Cards.
Of course Britain's loss of empire was much more definitive then any US decline, which is mostly a post-9/11 post-iraq war loss of confidence but there is an interesting parallel.
Most programmes are a commentary on the time they are made, not the time they are set so I agree deep reads can be very revealing.
Me too! One of favorites was the 90's BBC television series "House of Cards" and its sequel "To Play the King".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
He's talking about the BBC's 1990 House of Cards (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0098825/), starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart, the Conservative Party whip in the House of Commons.
You should check it out - it's available on Netflix :-P