Glenn Close continues the exodus of terrific movie actors and actresses who are finding the more fulfilling and meaty roles on the smaller screen. And with Damages, she’s struck gold in an engrossing legal thriller. Close plays Patty Hewes, an experienced and high profile litigator. She’s then joined by the eager, and considerably more wet-behind-the-ears Ellen Parsons (played by Rose Byrne), who fits into the role of her protégé. Damages then sees the pair fighting find out more...
In this series Patty (Close) is revelling in glory after her triumph over billionaire Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson). However, when a man from her past reappears, Daniel Purcell (William Hurt), she has a new action to contend with. Taking on a murder case for Daniel, it soon becomes apparent that it's much more complex than first thought and leads Patsy to the discovery of a far reaching conspiracy that implicates some very senior government officials. Meanwhile, the FBI is still investigating find out more...
As Season 4 begins, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact in the wake of the Red Wedding slaughter that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats? Meanwhile, an unbowed Stannis Baratheon continues to rebuild his army; the Lannister-loathing ‘Red Viper of Dorne,’ Oberyn Martell, arrives at King's Landing for Joffrey's wedding to Margaery Tyrell; Daenerys Targaryen and her dragons and unsullied forc find out more...
Francis Underwood is Majority Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become President in a political drama series that slithers behind the curtain of power, sex, ambition, love, greed and corruption in modern Washington D.C. An uncompromising exploration of power, ambition and the American way, the series orbits Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey), the House Majority Whip. Underwood is the politician’s politician – masterful, beguili find out more...
