When I watch the opening credits of this show, I see seeds that would eventually become the opening credits for House of Cards. There is some slickness to it...but it's too early, and how it was shot doesn't come off as slick.

As for the show, it's edgy, and that's cool, but it also demands a lot of attention to follow, to a degree at which I found its editing annoying - flashbacks, flashforwards, timelines, showing scenes with no context and then spending episode after episode teasing and hinting towards WTF that was. On the plus side, Glenn Close is spellbinding!

I've now just gotten through season one and still had to go back to look for things that season two episode one says happened, but I apparently missed. Had I watched it in real time back in 2007, I might have thought it was okay. But, given that, by 2007, we'd already had eight years of The Sopranos; Mad Men started in 2007, Breaking Bad in 2008, and The Walking Dead premiered in 2010, I'm not surprised that this show got buried by an avalanche of shows that, over time, have all proven to not just have been better shows, but the kind of shows that were changing TV - hard to blame any other show for being lost in that shuffle.

And that's not to say it's not a good show. It ran for five seasons for a reason. One of my favourite shows, House of Lies, also managed to run five seasons and it, too, is far from popular.

At any rate, I'm going to work through Damages and see where I'm at when done.