Netflix Original Series

So couple of my friends and a friend recommended the show House of Cards and Orange is the New Black to me respectively, both of which are Netflix Original Series.

So first things first. Orange is the New Black is about the life of Piper Chapman, a woman from Connecticut, living in New York City, who was convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for Alex Vause (an international drug smuggler and Chapman's former lover) and was sentenced for 15 months to women's federal prison in Litchfield, NY. The series follows life of Chapman and that of those around her at the prison.



Next up House of Cards. There is two versions of House of Cards - UK version (3 series released in 1990, 1993 and 1995 - 4 episodes in each series) and US version (1 season - 13 episodes). I have watched both, and it is roughly the same plot style, and roughly the same name for the antihero!

The antihero of the BBC version is Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.


The antihero of the US version is Frank Underwood, a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th Congressional District and the House Majority Whip who, after getting passed over for appointment to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him.