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Netflix's House of Cards Ups the Ante on Its British Inspiration
Tweet Share on Facebook February 5, 2013 CommentHow do you adapt a story about post-Thatcher Britain to be about modern-day American politics? This was the challenge faced by the new Netflix series House of Cards, adapted from the British miniseries of the same name. The British series is set in the immediate aftermath of the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, and follows the scheming and political intrigue that follows. (The story was first written as a novel in 1989, a year before Thatcher's real-life resignation.)
