There’s always a feeling with "The Riches" (9 p.m. Tuesday, Fx) that someone might be conning you.
It’s appropriate, given that the drama is about two vagabond con artists who’ve stolen the identities and house of a dead lawyer and his wife.
Wayne and Dahlia Malloy (Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver) and their three kids are trying, with varying levels of success, to fit in with the cluster of suburban McMansions known as Eden Falls. But as Season 2 unfolds, Wayne and Dahlia, who are trying to pass themselves off as lawyer Doug Rich and his wife, Cherien, realize they’re not quite on their games as con artists.
They find it difficult to deliver the coup de grace to the people they’re deceiving, even though they’re allegedly hardened grifters of long standing. They have too much heart, so they waffle.
The same indecisiveness afflicts the show,...
It’s appropriate, given that the drama is about two vagabond con artists who’ve stolen the identities and house of a dead lawyer and his wife.
Wayne and Dahlia Malloy (Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver) and their three kids are trying, with varying levels of success, to fit in with the cluster of suburban McMansions known as Eden Falls. But as Season 2 unfolds, Wayne and Dahlia, who are trying to pass themselves off as lawyer Doug Rich and his wife, Cherien, realize they’re not quite on their games as con artists.
They find it difficult to deliver the coup de grace to the people they’re deceiving, even though they’re allegedly hardened grifters of long standing. They have too much heart, so they waffle.
The same indecisiveness afflicts the show,...
- 3/17/2008
- by Tempo
- The Watcher
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