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March 03, 2013

Long story short, you owe it to yourself to watch House of Cards, simply because the horrors that are about to follow promise to be interesting enough to sign up for a NetFlix Instant account.

Grantland

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September 16, 2013

The production is gorgeous, the performances pristine. Nothing feels out of place, but nothing feels particularly vibrant, either.

Uncle Barky

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February 06, 2013

Watch at whatever pace you'd like -- immediately. Given its quality, I think you'll be drinking it all in sooner rather than later.

Zap2it.com

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February 01, 2013

It's only a matter of time before they make at least one misstep and others start catching on to their game -- and it's hard to decide so early on whether it is a game we should be cheering for them to win.

Financial Times

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May 02, 2017

A middle section of six episodes gradually took hold, but only the final four instalments really made me want to keep watching, thanks chiefly to Corey Stoll's portrayal of self-destruction, a real tragedy, followed by growing tension in the plotting.

HitFix

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January 31, 2013

It's a very promising start, at a minimum. The distribution model for House of Cards may be looking to reinvent how we watch TV, but the show itself feels very much of a piece with what we've been seeing for the last 10 or 15 years.

Slate

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January 31, 2013

The show is dryly witty in its depiction of constancy and fidelity on the Potomac.

Newark Star-Ledger

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November 17, 2015

The production values are lush, the pacing tight, the dialogue razor-sharp ("I love that woman," Underwood says of his wife at one point. "I love her more than sharks love blood"), the tone dark and delightfully nasty.

Denver Post

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February 01, 2013

Spacey vacillates between chilling and charming, breaking the fourth wall to speak directly, confidentially, to the camera.

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