The Riches - Season 1
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Movie Reviews of The Riches - Season 1
Movie Review: Have you met the new neighbors?
Summary: 5 Stars
The Riches are really the Malloys, a family of Travelers (Irish gypsies) who have stumbled on the con of a lifetime. Things have not been going well for the Malloys lately. Dad, Wayne Malloy (Eddie Izzard) has been trying to keep the family going while Mom, Dahlia (Minnie Driver) has been serving time for a con gone wrong but hasn't been doing so well. While at the Travelers' camp the family gets into even more trouble putting the whole family on the run in their battered, old RV and causing them to cross paths with the Riches, Doug and Sherene and end up taking over their lives. At first the Malloys are planning to run a quick con but soon they fall into the 'buffer' lifestyle they had always scorned. The parents decide to enroll their three kids, son Cael, daughter Didi and ...er...Sam into school. As time passes and the family finds they can survive in the buffer world and realize that the Traveler world is not the safe haven they had always found it. As Season One ends the Malloys are in danger of losing both in a cliffhanger episode that will certainly draw the viewer back for Season Two.
The style of this series is part comedy, part drama, even melodrama, and at times borders on farce. Things usually begin realistically enough but then one slightly unlikely over the top thing happens and then another taking the viewer from feeling the anguish of the family attempts to cope with Dahlia's drug addiction to laughter as they manage to con their way out of yet another problem.
This is a truly ensemble performance, not only are the leads (Izzard and Driver) convincing in the roles but all the roles are well written and well played. The three children, Cael, the oldest son who misses the Traveler life he understood so well, Didi, the teenage daughter who quickly realizes that life in the buffer world offers her an alternative to an early arranged marriage and Sam, the cross dressing youngest who is just looking a place to fit in anywhere are all especially well written and well acted.
Movie Review: Great writing and casting
Summary: 5 Stars
The Riches has proved to be one of the most intelligent and interesting series on American television in quite a long time. In the episodes from the first season one won't find catering to the lowest level. Viewers have to think, perhaps even weigh the pros and cons of the characters' lifestyle and whether the reasons for their actions outweigh the innate dishonesty of what they do.
Included are numerous characters residing in the grid, or the real world, and in the nearly mythical world of the Travellers. Wayne Malloy, played by Eddie Izzard, is the head of the family who takes his wife and 3 children with him to live in the grid. Living the lives of buffers, whom his people have always scoffed at, is the biggest con they have ever pulled. They don't find it easy to do, but doing it successfully is a matter of life and death. Wayne, posing as high-powered lawyer Doug Rich, works hard at creating this new life, but wife Dahlia (played by Minnie Driver) has a difficult time playing her part. Newly released from prison, and a true Traveller, she fights him at nearly every step. Meanwhile, the three children don't quite fit into their schools or among the buffers their own ages.
The two worlds have collided frequently, never -- or rarely -- to the benefit of what most of us would consider normal people. In Eden Falls, where most of the story takes place, normal must be defined, over and over. Plus pursuit by their friends and relations among the Travellers makes life even more interesting. Playing the five main characters must be more than a little schizophrenic, but each actor pulls it off.
A lot of people will be relieved to read or hear that a second season is being taped. The episodes of the first season were so compelling, it leaves fans eager for more.
Movie Review: SEASON ONE WAS GREAT; SEASON TWO NOT SO GREAT
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm reviewing the season which I loved, Season One. This season was so fresh and new in premise that I hung onto each episode. It is great fun from first episode to last. The premise is that Travelers (American gypsies or Roms) substitute themselves for people who were killed in a car crash. They hid the bodies and then rolled into a moderate sized southern town as those people. Since no one in the town knew them, they were able to pull this off. The husband and father was a corporate lawyer and his wife was the perfectly tended 2nd wife. The dead people had no children but they add on their 3 children to the mix. These people have never lived in anything but an RV encampment and have lived on solely their wits for years. They are expert con men, even the children. Now they live in a gated community and must convince everyone in town that they belong. It is always a near thing because, of course, they don't belong but they are excellent cons, both on a computer and off one. Wayne and Dahlia Malloy (Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver) are the husband and wife and parents of this bunch. Eddie Izzard is a very well known British comedian and thus he is perfect for playing a man who has to live by his wits and become someone he's not on a moment's notice. Although everyone else is very good, Izzard is outstanding and it is impossible to picture the show without him. Season Two just did not come together for me like Season One did but I kept watching because Izzard was still so good.Movie Review: The best show I have ever seen.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the Riches. I was in love with Eddie Izzard and his stand-up already when I found out about the Riches. I bought the Season 1 box set and watched it, no joke, from start to finish with hardly a pause for meal and toilet breaks. Yeah, the DVDs are over ten hours in total... It's that good. Since I bought it, I have watched the whole season again TWICE through. I LOVE THE RICHES!!
The special features on the DVDs are great. There is a gag reel (always my favorite) and two episodes (the pilot and finale) have commentaries. I would have, of course, liked more special features - more commentary, more behind-the-scenes, but that's just because I love Eddie so much that I always want more.
My only complaint about the DVDs is that there is no "Play All" for the episodes, of which there are 2-4 per DVD (4 discs in total). You have to select each episode and then "Play". All in all, it's not really a problem. Queer as Folk does the same... meh.
Anyway, buy this set, watch it, watch it again, and write to Fox asking for them to bring back a third season!!!!! It's not officially cancelled yet, so don't give up!
Movie Review: One cool show :-O
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, I love this show. There is suddenly a big influx of fun, original shows and this is one of them. It's so cool and addictive and I'm hooked now.
Minnie Driver is fantastic as Dahlia Malloy who is part of a family of con artists. She is on parole from having served time in prison for petty robbery and larceny. Her and her husband Wayne are now on the move with their three kids. They're travelling in an RV when they are witness to a car crash, and making a long story short, they end up assuming the identities of a wealthy family, the Riches, and move to an upscale neighborhood in Palm Beach Florida. Wayne needs to find work to support the family's new lifestyle so his first scam begins when he tries for a job with his neighbor at his law firm.
I can't tell you in words just how good this is. It's such a cool show that you have to check out for yourself. It's fun and enjoyable and Minnie Driver is brilliant in here. I love watching how these guys get away with all the things they do and it's certainly addictive. Get yourself a copy and you'll have a new favourite show for sure.