Luck

[Left Bank]

I thought " East Bound and Down",which comes on after "Luck",was funny as hell!!!

[Fearless Leader]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Campbell is right. They should totally do a balanced series of episodes where they show the rise and fall of a highly touted horse. The first half would be the pageantry: The horse would be the half-brother of an upstart Kentucky Derby winner. He would be sold at a 2yo-in-training sale to a famed racing syndicate for $500,000. He would be turned over to a corporate trainer that wins everything. He would show stakes quality in his initial starts.

Then the seedy underside: His form will take an abrupt nose dive. He'll disappear from the racetrack for a year. He'll return as a gelding. He'll make a comeback and fail miserably. Rather than retirement, the racing syndicate will turn him over to another trainer on a lesser circuit and run him for $5,000, 1% of his original purchase price. The horse will win, but he'll also be claimed.

The audience is left wondering if the horse will be sentenced to a career of complete decline, running for starter fees in Pennsylvania or if he'll go on a massive tear in $5k starters a la Rapid Redux...

Pageantry, Sportsmanship. If Brother Bird had a middle finger, he'd reserve it for Cot Campbell.

WOW !!!!

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by Left Bank

I thought " East Bound and Down",which comes on after "Luck",was funny as hell!!!

Funny, i thought it sucked.

My favorite scene in Luck so far isin Epi 3 when Jerry pays Turo a visit for his opinion of Mon Gateux. The dialogue between Jerry and Chan throughout the show is cool too.

I think the show is awesome and can't wait til it really hits it's stride.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by declansharbor

Funny, i thought it sucked.

My favorite scene in Luck so far isin Epi 3 when Jerry pays Turo a visit for his opinion of Mon Gateux. The dialogue between Jerry and Chan throughout the show is cool too.

I think the show is awesome and can't wait til it really hits it's stride.

I really want to like it but I am close to packing it in as the mumbling Nick Nolte and the uncomprehendable other trainer are killing it for me.

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by jms62

I really want to like it but I am close to packing it in as the mumbling Nick Nolte and the uncomprehendable other trainer are killing it for me.

I'll admit, the NOlte character is a real snooze, and it's tough to decipher what in the hell he's talking about. (most likely its about Delphi lol)

You don't like Escalante??? I feel like he's one of the three best characters on the show. I liked his move last night when he was about to walk out of the barn until he saw 3 of the 4 amigo's (the ones he doesnt want to deal with) and decided to just watch from his office window with a smile.

It might take me one or two times to watch it to fully understand every word they say in the show, but once i catch on to it, i must say that i think its brilliant.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by declansharbor

I'll admit, the NOlte character is a real snooze, and it's tough to decipher what in the hell he's talking about. (most likely its about Delphi lol)

You don't like Escalante??? I feel like he's one of the three best characters on the show. I liked his move last night when he was about to walk out of the barn until he saw 3 of the 4 amigo's (the ones he doesnt want to deal with) and decided to just watch from his office window with a smile.

It might take me one or two times to watch it to fully understand every word they say in the show, but once i catch on to it, i must say that i think its brilliant.

I love Esclante character but I don't understand half his dialogue and have to work way too hard to understand what I do... When they produce these things is that even a consideration??? I also love Nick Nolte Character but again why must I watch a scene 3 times to understand what he says?

[Seattleallstar]

A naked Rosie is all I can remember from the last episode...yum yum

[South Beach Luv]

The closed captions for this show are terrible. They miss whole sentences and words. It is complete BS for people that actually need them to watch the show and I'm not talking about turning them on to understand the trainers.

[richard]

I do hope the cc will improve. The race scene was a work of art and Rosie's beauty fit well within this episode.
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[kp319]

I'm trying to like it. All and all it's pretty boring. Why does the jockey agent have to talk like that?

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by Left Bank

I thought " East Bound and Down",which comes on after "Luck",was funny as hell!!!

I watched that too. What a wacky show. This is the last season from what I read about it. It was funny. Very different for sure.

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.

[Riot]

C'mon, details! You were in a shooting of Luck this past weekend, spill the beans!

You should ask her in the LUCK thread

[Danzig]

why? if there can be a new thread for every dammed debate, there can be a new one for every question!

[Riot]

One of the mods can move this to the "Luck" thread, that's fine!

[Honu]

Yesterday we shot in the studio in "The Longshot" bar I was part of background for a scene where the old man was talking with(flirting) with a lady friend. In the bar they actually had copies of old win pictures of Warren Stutes from the 60's and old vintage photographs of Lucky Baldwin driving a team of horses around the grounds of where he was going to build Santa Anita.

[dalakhani]

Much better tonight.

[herkhorse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Much better tonight.

I thought it started at 10