Luck

Originally Posted by goodcopy

Dennis Farina and Dustin Hoffman are the most most "watchable" characters on a so far terrible written dis-jointed mini series that has some signs of life as of episode 3.
Nick Nolte is incomprehensible,the 4 Grinders that won the pick 6 are completely unbelievable,Gary Stevens either never had or loss all ability to act(could you believe the seen where he contemplates a thought by scratching his chin for 3 1/2 minutes).
The best seen so far is where Dennis Farina and Dustin Hoffman are grilling the young "no it all" and Dennis makes him shake his hand .
The Julio character may be the closest to the real thing except the fact he never bedded a foxy veterinarian.
How about the seen where two stakes potential 2 year olds with different trainers are working from the gate in a 3 furlong match race.
There is just to much inaccurate stuff and the writers need to either write a interesting story about racing be it true or not or go ahead and make a documentary with complete accuracy and no poetic licence because they are trying to do both and failing in the most part

Or they could just get it over with and line all of their favorite actors up and have a rainbow party with them. Because that's what I'm getting from the show so far. Adulation of old actors.

[Linny]

Hoffman is the biggest name in the show and I have found his role hard to get. Clearly he's a big, connected business guy who took a fall and did time, but he appears closer to Rain Man than an all powerful guy. He even walks in that shuffle. I hope the character becomes less stiff. This is a guy that one would assume would be the commanding figure in a meetings etc and yet other than the outburt with the ripped shirt, he seems almost timid.

I also agree that there is little likeable out the 4 degenerates. None seem to have the redeeming quality that makes you root for them in spite of themselves. I hope that changes. I get that they have compressed many different "gambler characteristics" in to just 4 guys, but it sure would be nice if one of them was appealing on some level.

In the same way, they have taken many "typical horse trainer" qualities and crammed them into two men who end up looking like stereotypes; the old hardboot and the hispanic guy with cheaper horses who gets involved with a shady but wealthy owner to aquire a fancy stakes horses.

I think Gary has been good and the bug rider has done a good job of being "naive kid" but that might be easy for him if he doesn't understand racing.

[tbonds]

With Garys role, I wonder how far they will take him down.
Is his role along the lines of VP?

[richard]

HBO video recap of series so far.

http://www.hbo.com/luck/index.html#/...ayMQIAVKYXOA==

[TouchOfGrey]

Maureen Ryan: Why You Should Stick With Luck

I've had a lot of discussions with various people -- readers, friends, Twitter followers, my spouse -- about "Luck" in recent weeks. People who've struck up conversations about "Luck" don't know whether to stick with it, and I keep asking them to do so -- for just one more episode, at least.

I've developed a short pitch for the show that I feel bears repeating here: If you've liked David Milch's work in the past, give the first four episodes of the show a try. If, after Episode 4, you don't want to watch more, fair enough. But anyone who sticks with the show that long will likely stay with it until the end, and the end is really worth the ride.

[richard]

I watched episodes 2 and 3 twice. How can you not smile at the shot of the Four A Stable (Jerry,Marcus,Lonnie, Renzo) holding their carrots out with open hands near the end of episode 3. The next shot was a close up of Mon Gateau watching these characters, as you just did, and wondering, as you just did, what the hell is going on now?

[PatCummings]

Overall, I wish the "every-part-of-this-needs-to-be-real-or-else-I'll-find-something-to-dislike-and-talk-about-it" phase of this show would stop, and the general enjoyment/entertainment would begin.

I don't think mobsters and their associates sat around after the first three episodes of The Sopranos and said - "come on, Tony didn't eat enough bracciole" or "your office doesn't have that many files in it to make it look legitimate" or "when I whack guys, they don't fall like that"

Let's stop overanalyzing the trees and start enjoying the forest.

Lets be fat and stupid.