Get Shorty (TV Series) The Pitch (2017) User Reviews

The Pitch

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 22 August 2017]

This wasn't a perfect premiere, but I didn't really like the movie either, so maybe that is part of the problem. I did kind of enjoy it though. It's a different kind of role than The IT Crowd for Chris O'Dowd, but I think he handled it kind of well.

This is a bit of a different role for Ray Romano, although he has been venturing into more dramatic roles the last 10 years.

It is not quite as zippy or edgy as you would hope for, but I will probably stick with it.

Strong First Episode

[Unknownian · 14 August 2017]

This review is for the 1st episode only, named: "The Pitch": I was drawn into this show slowly, but solidly, to the point where I couldn't leave the TV to use the restroom, or get something to eat until the last bell had rung. It was truly the best series opener by another network other than HBO, I personally have ever viewed.

Chris O'Dowd has found a home here as the mobster with a lot more on the ball than your everyday hit-man. The rest of the cast is perfect, along with the cinematography, directing, and locations.

If this show keeps up this quality, and picks up an audience, I feel sorry for HBO come award season.

Put aside an hour and give this a look before it's off the schedule. I am extremely confident you will be very happy you did, and you'll be looking forward to the next episode as much as I was.

The Pitch

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 19 July 2020]

The beauty of Elmore Leonard's books are that they can always be adapted in different ways. Usually they used to be bad or indifferent movie adaptions.

It was Get Shorty that changed all that in 1995. It was brash garish comic crime drama with John Travolta in fine form and it was a box office hit. It paved the way for Jackie Brown and Out of Sight.

Get Shorty the television series is a long form drama with Chris O'Dowd taking the role as Miles Daly.

He is a low level hitman for some Nevada mobsters who is also a movie buff. We see this in the first scene as he comes out of a movie theatre with his daughter lamenting how unrealistic the film was.

When Miles and his associate to go to Los Angeles to collect a debt from a screenwriter. Miles sees a script he likes, a meeting with B movie director and an opportunity for his boss to launder money.

The first episode is a more dirty, gritty crime drama. It really is a case of forgetting the movie version and Travolta's slick take on loan shark Chili Palmer.

The standout in the first episode was Ray Romano as straight to DVD director Rick Moreweather and Lidia Porto as mob boss Amara De Escalones.