New FX Show Promises Rich TV-Viewing Experience
New FX Show Promises Rich TV-Viewing Experience by Roxanne McDonald
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Just seeing the teasers tells us “The Riches” looks like it will be a great show—maybe even somewhere in the pop range of “Nip/Tuck”, “Dexter” [HBO], and “Dirt”. |
It has been so difficult going through withdrawals from the ending of “Nip/Tuck”, a most addictive FX TV drama by the brilliant Ryan White. But “The Riches” might just make it up to us.
For starters, the cast is spectacular: take one Eddie Izzard, with the Tim Curry meets edgy and dark, and add one Minnie Driver, with a Southern Floridian accent and a sultry but spoiled attitude, and you have the makings of a Molloy [turned Rich] family dynamic that will blow “The Osbournes” or “Six Feet Under” off the airwaves.
Well, hopefully not, but this “family” of predators, who initially move into a dead man’s life—a rich dead man’s home, taking over his surname and identity—will grift their way through our entertainment hours in a way unlike any other reality or dark comedy has in quite some time.
Another telling element is the music: while I have yet to identify the soundtrack (and composers) on the previews, the tone and tenor point to a kind of Twin Peaks/David Lynch mood which is, if you are a Lynch fan, of the blackest of black comedy sound.
And so the premise offers absurd, comi-drama, dark comedy enthusiasts a bastardized nouveau riche couple who are much like an old-time Clampetts and Dick and Jane Harper composite; three kids who have got to me more screwed up than a shrink’s kids; and a storyline, dialogue, and dramatic action that promise to elicit some sick-ass chuckling.
At least, as I watch Driver as Dahlia Molloy/Cherien Rich settle in to her new digs, as she justifies her con artistry and as she stands in front of a wall-length mirror popping the cork on a bottle of Nyquil…hey, I am chuckling already.
I am intrigued.
And I would wager that any FX fans, anyone who digs the direction of Carl Franklin (who did “Devil in a Blue Dress” and “Out of Time”), and/or anyone who tends toward intelligent, richly-layered, and droll text/context as screenwriter Dmitry Lipkin will deliver it are interested as well.
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