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I have no opinion on Disney, as it's not available in my country, but generally for me Netflix's latency from the play button is much better than youtube's or HBO Go's. HBO's app / web page is full of bugs that would be probably easy to fix (it gets stuck even after I turn my new Samsung TV off and on again, I need to force quit the app).

At the same time while youtube offline video watching always works for me on my iPad Pro, Netflix often ,,forgets'' the downloaded content.

If I look at the storytelling/direction itself though, I find HBO better than Netflix (especially with politics ruining the stories). Can somebody tell me a new Netflix serie that comes close to House of Cards?

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Not Netflix, but if you liked House of Cards, may I suggest both Succession and Billions? I love analysis of power and those shows are in a class of their own regarding that, very similar to HoC, but I'd say better.

I love both of them, and both of them are on HBO in my country, just like Boardwalk Empire (which is in the same genre and also amazingly executed, though it's not a new series).

Agreed re bugs. Netflix runs consistently more smoothly than many streaming competitors, and it really makes a difference. It's much easier to watch a slightly worse show on Netflix and at times I'm willing to make that tradeoff just for the reliability of the app.

HBO Go in Latin America (which is the streaming service, akin to HBO Now in the US) is bad beyond belief. You’d think Netflix’s interface is super basic and obvious, until you need to use HBO’s pile of hot garbage.

> Can somebody tell me a new Netflix serie that comes close to House of Cards?

I enjoyed HOC, especially the earlier seasons. A few shows (none of them new though) available on Netflix that I found equivalently good, each got better as they went:

Bloodline[0] - starts slow & builds, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. Very under the radar, very good.

The OA[1] - similar to bloodline, in that I didn't expect to like it & it got better with each episode/season as the story progressed.

Colony[2] - got cancelled so ends on on cliff-hanger (an exhilarating one), but if you like sci-fi/aliens it'll deliver.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3520702/

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635282/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256/

Altered Carbon, especially season 1 was pretty good imo

2nd season was ruined by politics and lost lots of viewers/ratings, which meant that Netflix had to stop producing it. They should just kept the 2 original Takeshi Kovacs.

Ozark One of the best shows on Netflix

Ozark I think is far and away the best Netflix-created fiction content. It's actual HBO-level prestige TV, which is hard to say about any of the other non-documentary stuff from Netflix.

If you get into it, Netflix also carries a bunch of good Korean dramas, which tend to have a lot of episodes and honestly just seem to have much more effort put into them than most American TV. Signal and Itaewon Class are two of my current favorites.

I'll look into them thanks. Generally Netflix aims for quantity rather than quality. I think the system works by ensuring there's yet another new thing to watch before you finish watching the previous series. Amazon prime has less own series but they are mostly higher quality stuff imo

Borgen. Way better than House of Cards since it's more realistic and gives you a close view of Danish politics.

Occupied(Okkupert) is a great political serie akin to house of cards.

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I loved Designated Survivor but HoC is still better imo. Would love to find some new political dramas!

How about four more seasons of drama?

As other wrote Billions, and Broadwalk Empire are bothe great.

As for designated survivor it was a nice copy of house of cards, but lacked the level of storytelling that went into house of cards.

Wait, politics ruins stories, but you like House of Cards?

Not OP but I agree with them and your question is great.

Had I written what OP said, I would be clarifying that I mean "pushing personal politics via messaging in the show." HoC is remarkably a-political in that respect. They portray the power struggles and corruption fairly equally across the board regardless of party affiliation. More so than party though is simply they show how hollow the beliefs really are. It's about power and manipulation, not so much about policy. Of course such wide statements are nearly guaranteed to be wrong applied to some politicians, but as someone who has been all over the map politically throughout my life, they absolutely nail the main themes that I've noticed nearly everywhere.

"All parties are fairly equally corrupt" is a personal political view. Anyway, it's not a series, but I bet you and OP would enjoy The Irishman.

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