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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 10
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2007

Format:

Series

Genres:

Drama

Created By:

Craig Wright

Actors:

Blair Underwood, Donald Sutherland, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jill Clayburgh, Lucy Liu, Natalie Zea, Peter Krause, Samaire Armstrong, Seth Gabel, William Baldwin, Zoe McLellan

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

ABC

This is really great show. Smart, enter­tain­ing, funny and very well writ­ten. And in the end that was this series doom. Due to low rat­ings series is can­celed after the 2 sea­sons. I just can’t under­stand why the big TV sta­tions invest a lot of money and than fail to give the show a real chance. And Dirty Sexy Money defin­i­tively deserved the chance much beyond the 23 episodes they got. I still have to see sea­son 2, but for now here is sea­son 1.

Story

Dirty Sexy Money is a com­plex series with the pow­er­ful fam­ily Dar­lings in the cen­ter and young ide­al­is­tic lawyer Nick George. His father was Dar­lings fam­ily lawyer until his death, and now they want Nick to take over. But things are very com­pli­cated with the big fam­ily, and a lot of dark secrets are due to be dis­cov­ered. Writ­ers really did an excel­lent job with the main story show­ing the ten­sion between fam­ily mem­bers. Writ­ing is funny and smart and that was one of the rea­sons that this series had low rat­ings. Once again is proven that gen­eral audi­ence is not respond­ing well to a show that requires more engage­ment in the story and that is not that sim­ple to fol­low and understand.

Cast

Cast­ing and char­ac­ters are really excel­lent. Don­ald Suther­land stars as head of the Dar­lings fam­ily and as usual he is great in the role. Nick George is played by Peter Krause who is best known for his pre­vi­ous series Six Feet Under. I really liked per­for­mance of Natalie Zea as old­est Tripp Dar­ling daugh­ter. The rest of the cast is also very good and includes sev­eral less known young actors. There is a lot of back sto­ries and char­ac­ter devel­op­ment that will explain the long fam­ily his­tory and they rela­tions to Nick.

Dar­lings and Georges

Pro­duc­tion

ABC invested a lot in the pro­duc­tion, great choice of loca­tions used to show the power of the Dar­lings and great cast. But, even with all that ABC has doomed the show very early and even the series is picked for the sec­ond sea­son, it was no secret that they plan to can­cel it.

Con­clu­sion

This is not your aver­age drama series, and many peo­ple didn’t like it. But I still rec­om­mend that you try it and you will not be disappointed.