House of Cards Trilogy (House of Cards / To Play the King / The Final Cut) starring Ian Richardson
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
This BBC miniseries is a study in political power struggles and the people whose lives fuel them. Francis Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson) happens to be the prime minister of England but his character gives insight into the motivations and actions of politicians everywhere obsessed with their own rise to power regardless of the cost to the people they simultaneously pretend to be serving.