Seasons(2) / Episodes(20)
Plots(1)
Driver plays Dahlia Malloy, a wife and mother who at the start of the series has just been released from prison for a crime her husband, conman Wayne (Eddie Izzard) committed. Understandably bitter, Dahlia self-medicates and steals to protect her children, ending up on the run from a scary crew of extended family. When a crazy coincidence gives Wayne and Dahlia the keys to a new life and a new identity, they seize it, mistakenly figuring life in the suburbs will be a piece of cake. (FX Network)
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The Riches is an intelligent, satirical series full of dark humor about a poor American family who “accidentally” moves into an affluent neighborhood. There are no pretty TV faces or angels without a skeleton in the closet. This family’s closet houses an entire cemetery. Sometimes it’s serious as hell, sometimes wacky, and sometimes there’s even action. And it’s always fresh. In the serious passages, we listen to music by Toby Chu in the style Gustavo Santaolalla, while in the comic bits we get the music we can imagine when hearing the name of Harry Gregson-Williams. A great role for Minnie Driver, whom I don’t like much and usually find grating.
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An interesting series that revolves around a family of nomads who, thanks to a series of coincidences and the incredible audacity of the father as the head of the clan, exchange identities and pretend to be a high-class family of snobbish lawyers. It's a good idea, with an attractive setting and motifs, but the potential was greater than this and the series lacks the polished screenplay that I appreciated in Breaking Bad. Otherwise, it is a series that offers the viewer black humor and criticism of the social layer into which outsiders cunningly penetrated. Overall impression: 65%.
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