Luck

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Okay, in over 160 minutes, the biggest happening was a group of stereotype degenerates hit a pick 6. And the fallout?

- one of them gets nearly beaten to death by two run down prostitutes/grifters over some insurance scam that never turned out. (not sure but i think that is why they beat him up)

- one of them loses a couple of hands of cards and wins a nice pot against a cliche chinese restaruant owner/poker player

- one of them wants to claim a horse but loses in a shake but then goes back and buys the horse at 4x the claim.

- one is grumpy and rides on his mechanized wheel chair with his loot in a pillow case.


Call me a snob, but i don't find any of this very interesting. Certainly no knock on anyone that does. And i appreciate the sentiment- i hope it gets better as well.

It's not easy to make this type of show for modern horse racing.

Two of the bettors (the degen who plays poker and the guy in the wheel chair) are belivable and remind me of people I know from the track.

They really have to reach in a lot of areas to get the drama...where incredible true story drama and charchters would have been there in a late 1800's time period.

I still have enjoyed the first 3 episodes though.

Well since they have another season there is no reason why the cast has to stay the same.

Just a suggestion...

Get rid of the poker degenerate and his friends. Pair him with a 20-something college dropout that is obsessed with crop duster's horse. Turns out she has some dark secrets...think human centipede type hang-up.

[docicu3]

"Ace" and the grandson that is responsible for him doing 3 years of hard time has got to be a bigger part of episodes to come, I am not sure we have met the grandson as of yet but he may be 1 of the four that won the Pick 6 winners which would make things far interesting?

The board room scene in episode 3 ,with Hoffman, where he lays out the ceiling for the purchase of the slots deal at Santa Anita seems like a page from " The Untouchables" minus the baseball bat, but there is time yet to see "Ace's" temper when provoked. Loyalty, rare as it is, seems to be a big theme in this show.

If the grandson turns out to be still flawed, like card playing Jerry, without contrition for grandfather's sacrifices we could have some real fireworks soon.

I like the show and think HBO has many angles of interest to play yet.