Money Warrants Full Season
Welcome back to the wheel wagon, hope everyone had a decent weekend, aside from being sick throughout it was pretty decent for us. We saw OSU beat Michigan for the fourth straight year and for the sixth time in seven years, and in the process kept them in the national title hunt (which, in the interest of objectivity, if OSU makes the national title game after being idle for two weeks, that is just the height of inequity, and the BCS needs to be banished, in fact, just the notion that it could happen should lead to the banishment of this post season format). That alone made our weekend, and seeing the tears stream down the faces of UM fans over a game they had nothing to do with, just made it all the more satisfying. Yes, nothing like a bit of schaudenfreude to really make a weekend worthwhile.
Anyhow, back on topic…
You may have remembered from last week, that we decided to change the format here on Mondays in lieu of any good series’ to discuss. So, this is the inaugural Monday where we try to adhere to a “traditional” blog format, in which we have multiple succinct posts, as opposed to one (or on a busy day, two) extended posts. So, with that in mind…
It appears that Dirty Sexy Money was dirty and sexy enough to be extended for a full first season. This might seem premature, since they aren’t even close to a resolution on the writer’s strike, but if the series is showing that much promise commercially, we’re not terribly surprised that ABC would want to lock it in. After all, Michael Wilbon endorses the series. Then again, he heavily endorses Boston Legal, which is mediocre and formulaic at best, and is also on ABC… Wait! Wilbon is employed by ESPN…Disney owns ESPN…Disney owns ABC…Well, you have to at least give them points for subtlety.
Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s important.
We said awhile back that we would watch and review the series for a few episodes, and make a determination as to whether or not we wanted to recap the series regularly. Well, we’re going to level with you: that never happened. We watched about twenty minutes of the second episode, and it had this glossy, generic, “ripped from the headlines” predictability about it. It wasn’t terrible, just not for this site.
We can understand it getting a guaranteed full season though. Star studded cast, heavily marketed, great lead-ins. But we’re almost certain Donald Sutherland’s character will be dead by season’s end, and we’re haunted by how much better this show could be if not confined to the limitations of ABC and the FCC. In other words: We might watch the series if it was on a cable network.
Still, congrats to DSM, and if the back end of your pilot season airs before 2009, then all the more power to you. We’ll probably just be caught up in watching fifth season Wire episodes for the tenth time before we get around to catching any of your work. Sorry.
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