"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).
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