Need help finding a certain type of series - Help please!

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by damican

I'll give Chalion a try. I'm hoping for something in the vein of House of Cards, in how the main character has a plan to go from his current spot, to top the world. He follows said plan, and connives and does generally amusing/amazing(albeit evil) things along the way.

Hmm… Chalion isn't so much as following a particular plan on the part of the protagonists, as anticipating and thwarting the plans of the antagonists, so YMMV, but there is a whole bunch of conniving along the way (and amusing stuff, too), and the main character is a pretty thoughtful and relatively intellectual guy.

If you're willing to do some TV-watching, a pretty good mini-series somewhat in the vein of what you're looking for is The Politician's Wife (Wikipedia), where a cheated-on UK Minister's wife schemes to get a thorough revenge on her husband by cleverly and underhandedly sabotaging and usurping his political aspirations while maintaining a look of sweet-eyed supportive innocence throughout, and goes from victim to vanquisher in the process.

If your local library has DVDs and is reasonably well-stocked, it might have this since IIRC it was aired on PBS at one time and libraries love to get in PBS DVDs, and it won a bunch of TV awards as well.

[damican]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Hmm… Chalion isn't so much as following a particular plan on the part of the protagonists, as anticipating and thwarting the plans of the antagonists, so YMMV, but there is a whole bunch of conniving along the way (and amusing stuff, too), and the main character is a pretty thoughtful and relatively intellectual guy.

If you're willing to do some TV-watching, a pretty good mini-series somewhat in the vein of what you're looking for is The Politician's Wife (Wikipedia), where a cheated-on UK Minister's wife schemes to get a thorough revenge on her husband by cleverly and underhandedly sabotaging and usurping his political aspirations while maintaining a look of sweet-eyed supportive innocence throughout, and goes from victim to vanquisher in the process.

If your local library has DVDs and is reasonably well-stocked, it might have this since IIRC it was aired on PBS at one time and libraries love to get in PBS DVDs, and it won a bunch of TV awards as well.

I love just about all forms of entertainment media. I'll check it out.