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Yeah, House of Cards with Spacey is excellent. I started and liked it so much I finished watching all episodes in 2 days. Its really good to see companies like HBO and Netflix giving the traditional TV media houses a run for their money. BTW, if you liked House of Cards, check out Game of Thrones.

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>... if you liked House of Cards, check out Game of Thrones.

Is there anyone on hn who hasn't checked out Game of thrones?

Me. I don't have HBO, and I'm not willing to pirate it.

It's for sale on iTunes, and I believe on physical media as well.

I don't have HBO, but I found a legit version on xbox.

I pay for Netflix from India and for that I've to pay for a broadband service which is INR 2.5K (~$50) which is very costly for India, especially for a single person usage + VPN cost.

Somehow I am not able to make HBOGo work on my Mac with all the tweaking and hence I pirate it(Sad :'( )

I wish they had an app that would just make it work magically - something like PnP!

I don't like the genre (fantasy), and I don't like soaps. "OMG, $x is fucking $y!" isn't my idea of entertainment unless $x and $y are people I know personally.

Well, I wouldn't call it either a fantasy or a soap. It's more about politics than almost anything else. The fantasy parts are much more restrained than I expected when I first started watching (seriously, pretty much nothing fantastical happens from after the first scene of the first episode until the last episode of the first season).

Ok... But have you checked it out?

I watched the first episode and honestly didn't find it interesting.

I didn't like the first episode much either. But it gets much better.

I'm with you. The language didn't seem fitting, and if I remember correctly, it was a bit incestuous.

A bit. Repetitively. The teenage-boy-director style of boob/arse shots a a touch over the top at times too.

>>"OMG, $x is fucking $y!"

IMHO, looks like didn't.

I read one of the books, but I hate the idea of getting sucked into the plot and then waiting years for the final installments. I manged to postpone reading all the Harry Potter books until last year so I think can hold out on GoT too. I don't have HBO so I'll just pick it up on DVD sometime...after I've gotten around to watching The Wire.

The rate at which he's writing the books, expect to be finally cracking the binding on them in 2025 or so...

/me raises hand.

I also haven't read the books.

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