20 Hours in America is my favorite episode of telivision ever, just for Toby and Josh's little freakout on the bridge over the time zone foul up. It's not even THAT funny, but it just happens to hit my funnybone in exactly the right way.

The British original is excellent. Ian Richardson was brilliant. Glad to hear that the American remake may be doing it justice.

YOU MUST SEE the British series from the 90s.

'House of Cards,' and its even better sequel 'To Play the King' are utterly gripping political thrillers, and the sadistic pleasure of watching Ian Richardson get away with everything will tempt you to see your own life through Machiavellian glasses.

I had no idea this new series was based on that. Now I have to watch it.

I'm enjoying it so far! Only on episode 4 though... And I recently started watching Fringe as well, and when I do that (watch two series at a time) sometimes things get a bit confused. Oh well. Can't wait for when Underwood finds out what "the Pattern" is! and does he really have special abilities??

Things I learned from West Wing:

-Aaron Sorkin really hates our current debate format.

I haven't seen the original and probably won't be able to (Oh NZBMatrix how we miss ye), but this Netfix version is great. I spent most of yesterday watching it, will start streaming episode 8 in a few minutes. I love that Reed Hastings and company released the entire season in one fell swoop.

While I think the political problems are a bit contrived ("you have this girl's blood on your hands!") it's been pretty great. I do, however, keep feeling like Malcolm Tucker should show up and bring a little cussy levity to some of the arguments.

This is a great series - I deepthroated them all between Friday and Saturday. I like it even better for its flaws. Good lord, Robin Wright is so magnificent. The whole greenwashing angle is a delight.

Utopia is keeping me satisfied at the moment.
That and Bomb Girls.

4th Season was very good, 5th was eh, and the 6th was decent.

@1 That really is the best scene in the whole series. It's the natural tension in the show that makes it so sublimely funny.
"We're seeing a hairdo from Florida in pass coverage."

you might think that, paul. i couldn't possibly comment.

I loved the shit out of this series, I'm going to watch it again this weekend and I plan on watching the British version when I find out it's name. I love the small things, watched like a giant movie everything is in the shots for a reason, the use of colors, the use of language. Fucking film nerd orgasms for 12 hours. Seriously, even if you hate politics or anything about politics this is really amazing work on a technical level. I'm amazed and ready for more.

The British version is better, if not by much. And seasons 1-4 of West Wing are the good ones, not 1-3.

@13, the British version is also called House of Cards for the first season. The second and third seasons have different names but they shouldn't be too hard to find. All three are on Netflix.

What @3 said. I haven't seen the new version but the British series are damn near perfect.

4 episodes in and I am lovin it. Its incredibly delicious in its complete head-first dive into the cynicism pool, barely coming up for air to breathe any morality into it. Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are spot-on perfect as the ultimate power-hungry couple. Every time he talks into the camera I get the shivers of delight.

Just finished episode 4, where it seems to start to go off the rails and into tired old AdulteryLand...

...and then completely trainwrecks in episode 6.