The other DrC and I have watched the first four episodes of the second season of Kevin Spacey's American version of House of Cards. It is as good as the first season, which was very good indeed.
Politicians playing "hardball" are fun to watch. You come away with the strong feeling that it's a league in which you'd rather not play. The drawback to this series is that you have to subscribe to Netflix to view it.
The series upside is that they released all this season's episodes at one time, facilitating "binge viewing." We've been rationing ourselves to two episodes per evening.