Netflix's big gamble with 'House of Cards'

Just as it had promised, Netflix today released its original series House of Cards to its many, many subscribers. There's more good news, however, as the.As it happens, “House of Cards” (based on a British miniseries from eons ago, based on a novel) is mostly concerned with age-old ruminations on the corrosive but exhilarating power of power: “Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts fallin' apartFriday was the beginning of the end of television as we know it -- or at

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