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JUNE 28,
Saturday, at the Shanghai Bistro in Eastwood City,
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will be a Heartthrobs tour this October-November.
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****
Dirty
Sexy Money
is one helluva show that lives up to its name.
However,
after watching it in a special press preview hosted by
Studio 23, which carries the show—airing every Sunday
night after Us Girls—I found myself confronted
with a question: What’s happened to my favorite new show
of all!??! Samantha Who? Please give me an
answer!
Anyway,
back to the new Studio 23 show, which is all dirty, sexy
and more.
The show
is actually a soap opera, about a shamelessly rich Upper
East Side family called the Darlings. They’re very, very
rich. As in billions and billions of dollars. They are
also flamboyant and eccentric. They are famous all over,
but nobody knows them like their lawyer Nick George,
played by the talented Peter Krause of Six Feet Under
fame. He shows his acting chops again here. While he is
a pretty boy, he is also pretty talented when it comes
to acting. He says a lot with his eyes even when he is
not talking, that you end up deliciously wondering if
you should take his words at face value.
Nick
George is hired as the Darlings’ lawyer and is
unwittingly forced to clean up the family’s many
mess—and there’s plenty to go around. There’s the family
patriarch Tripp Darling (Donald Sutherland, who reminds
us he is the better actor over his son), matriarch
Letitia (Jill Clayburgh), an alcoholic and philanderer;
and their pathetic children: Patrick (William Baldwin),
an aspiring politician having an affair with a
transsexual; Brian (Glenn Fitzgerald), a very
hypocritical priest who doesn’t practice what he
preaches; Karen (Natalie Zea), the alcohol- and
marriage-addicted daughter who still has a huge crush on
Nick; and the twins, Juliet (Samaire Armstrong) and
Jeremy (Seth Gabel), Paris Hilton coming in both
genders.
The
series starts with the funeral of Nick’s father where we
see Nick as a goody-two-shoes type of guy. He is
approached by Tripp Darling to continue what his father
has started. Nick is hesitant at first but his wife sees
it as an opportunity to use the influence and the money
of the Darlings to help more people.
The show
has a lot of subplots, the most compelling of which is
finding out who murdered Nick’s father. Still, all the
various arcs make the show thoroughly engrossing. Just
when you thought the show has turned dramatic, a funny
moment pops in. Just when you begin to think of it as an
in-your-face comedy, there’s a slap in the face that
underscores an underlying seriousness to all the
outrageously funny developments.
I guess
the bottom line is that the show is still a soap opera
but its creators (I heard the team is a mix of people
from different hit shows like Brothers & Sisters,
Lost, Everwood, etc.) apparently wanted to create a
hybrid—and in this, they’re fabulously successful.
The show
is compelling and additive. I can’t wait for next Sunday
to watch the second episode. I heard it’s a bit of a
mess but it must be the sophomore slump that all shows
experience, although I heard the third episode gets the
show back on course with more wonderful subplots
unfolding.
I hope
people don’t get turned off with the second episode
though, because the show is daring and takes a lot of
chances. And given the alternatives, Dirty Sexy Money
is fabulous.
In fact,
I never use the words smart and soap in one sentence or
even in close proximity but if I have to, then it would
have to be for Dirty Sexy Money. |
