Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Dirty Sexy Money: Series Premiere

"NO!! I'm not going to go into a hotel and give a tranny-hooker a check!"

ABC is beginning to follow a tired-trend ... in all of its Television series: framed narration. Tonight's Series Premiere of Dirty Sexy Money was no exception. The framework for this episode was circular, beginning at the end and circling back -- which was little more than confusing.

With former 6 Feet Under star, Peter Krause, the show stepped onto a slightly better-than-average foot. It was smart, pop-culture friendly, and age-adaptive, but the pilot was neither extraordinarily dirty or sexy.

Peter's performance hasn't strayed far from the grave; in fact, it's hard to distinguish between his performance on 6 Feet Under as Nate, and the character in Dirty Sexy Money, Nick.

But even with the debut's drowsy-development, Dirty Sexy Money has a lot of potential. A transgendered individual was introduced (a first since Nip/Tuck(?); that's her in the photo above), Glenn Fitzgerald and Natalie Zea (as the Reverend Brian and his sister Karen Darling respectively) gave four-star performances, and there were a few really great laughs. But will that be enough, especially with a similar ABC series premiering on the next day (Hot Shots)?

Dirty Sexy Money plays Wednesdays 9 p.m. Central on ABC (Sunflower Broadband ch. 9).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm so upset! I got so wrapped up in Top Chef that I completely forgot about Dirty Sexy Money until around 9:30, when I figured it was probably too late to start watching. Do you know if they're planning to repeat it? If I start next week without having seen the first episode, will I have missed much? Ughh!

--beth

Anonymous said...

Just saw DSM. He's TOTALLY Nate! Prodigal son trying to reject his father's life but finds himself wrapped up in it. He's even married to a woman named Lisa. I like it, though. It's got potential. You said yourself that you can't always trust the pilot to give you the show's best.

--beth