DVD Review: Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete and Final Second Season: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Seth Gabel, Glenn Fitzgerald, Natalie Zea: Movies & TV
DVD Review: Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete and Final Second Season: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Seth Gabel, Glenn Fitzgerald, Natalie Zea: Movies & TV
Diamond in the rough that never got to Shine,
By Nathan Higgins (Los Angeles CA) -
Dirty Sexy Money is certainly a hard Show to Talk about. After its tumultuous History I doub that if you were to go up to your friends and say” Oh i was watching this wonderful show but it got a shortened season from the writers strike and then came back for a round 2 but got cancelled because of lack of viewers..”..the chance that the would be like Oh what show is very Low…..
This aside it is a Wonderful Juicy, guilty pleasure!!!
Its Allstar Cast of Donald Sutherland, Jill Clayburgh, Lucy Liu(Kill Bill), Blair Underwood(In treatment) and Peter Krause( Six feet Under) give some of there best performances i have ever seen! especially in Season 2 of this guilty pleasure in which….
–Leticia(Jill Clayburgh) is Prosecuted for the Death of Nicks father and her former lover, Dutch George
–Nick(Peter Krause) and Lisa’s(Zoe Mclellan) Marriage unravels as his attraction to Karen(Natalie Zea) Grows
– Karen Falls in love with her father Enemy Simon Elder(Blair Underwood) who has his sights on more than just Karen….
–Jeremy falls for the Nola Lions(Lucy Liu), The women who is prosecuting His mother Leticia
– Brian has his conflicts with his sons mother
–Patrick searches desperately for the Love of his life Carmelita whilst his Wife Ellen takes action in her own hands…
Pros/Cons
Pros:
–Mr Sutherland’s acting
–The cliches that are pulled off well
– the Love triangle of Nick Lisa and Karen will have you changing sides MANY times
–The Deaths of 2 Chrachters are pulled of with enough Finesse to not be predictable
–the first 10 episodes should be the season itself
–the Soundtrack that uses the perfect music for the perfect moments..
–Craig Wrights writing is simply superb
–Episode 7 The facts( you will see :D…)
Cons:
–The Cliches that DONT work
–Sometimes William Baldwins acting is Stiff
–Jeremy and Nolas Romance made Jeremy a annoying Character
–Donald Sutherland’s and Jill Clayburgh’s Characters Tripp and Leticia are pushed off to the side after episode 10 and aren’t really revisited
–The departure of Samaire Armstrongs Character Juliet
– Lucy Lius Chracter Nola Lions Becomes a broken record( My brother!!!…do we ever find out the little S**ts name!?) and really is sad for Ms Liu who is a wonderful actress
–Brians Storyline
–Episodes 11-13 are a let down..
–THE END!!!!!!…nothing is satisfying!!
Conclusion: Dirty Sexy Money Was a Really good show until the 10th episode( which was coincidentally the last episode in the television season) which afterwards becomes Cliche and unsatysfying. PERSONALLY i recommend watching the season in order EXCEPT watch episode 7 ( The Facts) LAST after the supposed “Finale” as it gives more Closure and is likely to distract you from the storylines left completely in the air…
Dirty Sexy Money However in the end of the day is a Diamond in the rough that never got to reach its full Potential.
When A Series Implodes…,
By Robert Taylor -
In its first, strike-shortened season,”"Dirty Sexy Money” was a more-than-acceptable diversion that embraced its campy side and flaunted its eccentricities as much as its Darling family flaunt their excess. It was, quite simply, fun. Cut to the second season and the show somehow managed to systematically drain every drop of enjoyment from its vaults. What remained was a shell of a once-intriguing ride, with snoozer B-plots that were forgettable last year brought to the forefront only to remain just as sleep-inducing.
Take the yawn of a confusing subplot involving Karen Darling (Natalie Zea, who tries, she really does) seducing billionaire Simon Elder (Blair Underwood) because…well…apparently Elder is a threat to the Darling family, though he has never done anything that seems even remotely powerful or assertive except saying he’s powerful and assertive while staring intensely. Underwood is a hugely charismatic actor, but seems utterly lost in the useless role, and drags the still-charming Zea down in every scene they share together.
Want more bad storylines? We’ve got plenty. The long-simmering story of who killed Nick’s father,–which only took up five forgettable minutes of every episode in the first season,–was turned into some sort of umbrella arc for the season. Perhaps the writers have forgotten that viewers don’t really care about a character that has never been on the show, was a scoundrel and wasn’t even liked by his son, and therefore could care less about who killed him. But despite every sign of logic screaming to stop while you are ahead, “DSM”continued to devote the bulk of most of the season two episodes to the lame mystery, dulling the usually sharp Jill Clayburgh by making her the prime suspect and bringing in Lucy Liu (who deserves much, much better than this, or “Cashmere Mafia”) for no particular reason to prosecute the case.
Liu is secretly bedding Jeremy Darling (Seth Gabel). While in the past Jeremy has been nothing but a cad, the viewer was always led to believe he was, at heart, a good person, but allowing him to sleep with the woman trying to send his mother to the electric chair turned him into an irredeemable piece of ****. Yes, there is a twist, and instead of vindicating Jeremy, it just further implicates another member of the family and makes him/her irredeemable as well.
Enjoyable characters that once were the hallmarks of the show’s eccentricities have disappeared or been killed off, leaving the remaining Darlings and other roadkill characters wandering through large sets saying overblown dramatic dialogue. If the charming Juliet Darling or Carmelita were still around, they would chuckle and point at the things the main characters were saying. True, Carmelita returned briefly before being murdered, but apparently could barely speak when onscreen because because Donald Sutherland was too busy arguing with Steven Baldwin about something melodramatic. Juliet gave the series much of its life and kept it from becoming too full of itself (by being too full of herself), and the loss of the character has taken its toll on most of the ensemble.
Soon the urge to turn off the Darlings babbling on overdramatically and investing themselves in uninteresting subplots must have become too appealing for most viewers, because ABC cancelled the show midway through the season, airing the final (just as atrocious) episodes on Saturdays months later. It’s such a shame that a show with, for all intents and purposes, one of the best ensembles on television, could fall so far so quickly.
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