{"id":41791,"date":"2014-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2014\/03\/12\/tv-catch-up-house-of-cards\/"},"modified":"2014-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"tv-catch-up-house-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2014\/03\/12\/tv-catch-up-house-of-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Catch Up &#8211; House of Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">Netflix subscribers who are game for a dose of nostalgia will be delighted to discover that <i><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\">Pok\u00e9mon: Indigo League<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> (the original 1997 series) is now available to stream. While it is arguably no longer the cultural phenomenon it once was, Pok\u00e9mon still remains a household name \u2013 those who grew up with the franchise might be able to touch base with their childhood. Once you hear the theme tune, you won\u2019t be able to resist. As well as this, the Australian legal series<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"> Rake <\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">has hit Netflix too. Those who don\u2019t see<\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"> Pok\u00e9mon <\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">as their thing might find this a more attractive proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0 Oh, and those on Netflix who haven\u2019t seen <i><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\">House of Cards Season 2<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> yet, make it a priority right now! Shame on you even more if you haven\u2019t watched the series at all! Kevin Spacey is a greedy, backstabbing US Representative and Robin Wright is his equally devious wife \u2013 one shouldn\u2019t need to sell it any harder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 And, of course, we cannot ignore the build up to this year\u2019s <i><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Publico Italic; font-size: xx-small;\">Eurovision Song Contest. <\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It was announced on Monday that Molly Smitten-Downes (a relative unknown compared to past competitors) would be representing the UK this year. Will the UK be in with a chance of winning the competition for the first time since 1997? You\u2019ll have to find out on May 10th.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James  gives us his top TV picks for this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[224,5366,20774,3295,20775],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}