Have you watched the original House of Cards? (Or do you mean the original?) If no, I 100% recommend it! Richardson is amazing levels of coldly and irredeemably evil as Urquhart, and the plots and the dialogue are brilliance itself (although I think what actually sold me on the series was this: http://edwinlandfill.tumblr.com/post/94904987533/). I like the UK version better than the new one, not least because the original Urquhart has honest-to-god political convictions and beliefs, rather than acting solely for his own benefit. And he just tricks a major part of the audience into kind of understanding him and sympathizing with some of his views, until the last scenes come.