I have been watching the Riches every week, since its premiere. And I’ve been meaning to follow up since I first mentioned it.
It has a lot going for it. The premise is unique, the performances are magical, the plots are exciting. Sort of.
I continue to have mixed feelings.
The set-up is simple. A family of grifters, (the Malloys), winds up leaving their grifter community on bad terms (and stealing a bunch of money on the way out) and then while they’re in transit to no particular destination they are involved in an accident which kills a random couple who had been on their way to their new home in an incredibly wealthy neighborhood that they had purchased via the internet so the grifter family moves into the big rich house and assumes the dead people’s identities.
Okay not so simple. And it gets a whole lot more complicated than that.
I like that it doesn’t feel like any other show I’ve watched. I like that it is taking me on a ride I’ve never been on before. I like the world of the ‘travelers’ (their grifter community). I like this family a lot. Read the rest of this entry »
