Maybe you shouldn't have watched the first five episodes straight? A little whiskey might take the edge off...

But seriously...The show is getting good reviews, so your review might not be so over the top. Political dramas are irresistable to political junkies, and the smart producers know to load up on the technical details that get our juices going, just like hardware to a sci-fi junkie.

Which is something that hit me in the face when I watched the BBC version of "House of Cards". It's technical! Duh! I need to read up on the British systems of government and politics just to have a fighting chance of keeping up with the jargon. By which I knew I was seeing the real deal, even if I had trouble following it. The British have this fluid system of government in which departments of government seem to be run as hobbies by various members of Parliament, as if, for example, the Secretary of State was also the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Or something like that. It's like reading about politics on another planet!

But worth watching after I get up to speed. Ian Richardson stars as the counterpart to Kevin Spacey, and he does this thing of staying in character while turning to talk into the camera, to the audience, and you get the sense of talking to somebody who's genuinely powerful and a real player in politics. And he confides in you (the audience)...that's powerful stuff.

Thumbs are up, they'll probably stay there as I watch more.

One thing, though: You might want to wait until you've seen the entire Netflix series before tackling the British version. You know the old saying, that we're two people divided by a common language? I've learned, with dual-citizenship shows like Being Human, to keep them separate. They're too close, but different--you start cross-threading what happened in which country. It gets confusing. Beware...

(If you like the American Being Human, you'll love the British version, but for slightly different reasons.)