Monday, March 31, 2008

What I'm Watching: The Riches

The Riches: Season 2, Episode 2 "Friday Night Lights" (B+)

This episode serves a fine return to form for this show after a somewhat discombobulated first episode. It is at the same time fascinating and terrifying to see the majority of the Malloy family working their magic. They do work so well together but them getting caught is incredibly intense. This show manages to jump from regular, calm drama to fast-paced and frightening dangerous situations. Minnie Driver especially is really in control in her performance as Dahlia. On the other side of things, I was really hoping that Wayne would just hit Dale over the head with the shovel and leave him in the grave but I guess that would be too simple. This was very well-managed in terms of getting things back as they should with the near-excursion to Mexico and Wayne finally turning the RV around. I am excited for the next five episodes.

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