Claws

TBT continues to dazzle. They promoted the hell out of this, somebody spent a lot of $ - and it shows, in a raunchy and engrossing noir comedy. But - a little puzzled that some seem surprised by the graphic (and witty!) vulgarity - "prurient"? yep, definitely! anyone who had seen a promo, or looked at the first 2 minutes - would know that this was not going to be Downton Abbey or The Good Wife. South Florida is a strange & wonderful place - and Claws is worthy of that milieu.

The cast: Niecy Nash has been a particular favorite since the wonderful Reno 911 - happy to see that she has found a perfect showcase. Carrie Preston, sometimes a bit too twee in her Good Wife stint. is letter-perfect,often raunchy funny but also deeply moving in her fragile gentility. Judy Reyes is always a welcome sight - a world away from her Carla on Scrubs. Great secondary characters -eg, the brilliant Dale Dickey, with her face for the ages. Dean Norris and the other males are all good, but the women rule here.

Nash's clothes, like her attitude, are magnificent, the stripper biker funeral in Episode 2 has to be seen to be believed, and Florida looks great.

A last note: "Tailored to a very specific audience" as the last line of a rather hateful 1-star review - really? Seems to be flirting with racism ... altho, I'm surely part of that target audience, and I'm a middle aged white man from the south, so yeah - target away!

Near perfect,very adult crime drama. This pilot spent not one minute BSing it's way to a surprising conclusion to set up what looks like a very rough ride of woman power. Previews made this look sassy,but it is much more. This looks like a sophisticated crime thriller.

Very well executed. Niece Nash (Scream)and Dean Noriis (Breaking Bad),along with Carrie Preston (True Blood) and others give difficult,really wonderful,believable performances with very adult material. I gave the pilot a 10.

It's like a comedy-drama that draws you in. It's Orange is the New Black meets Empire, meets Star, meets Breaking Bad, meets Power. Not for everyone, but I love it! Great acting and cast. Needs a bit more developing, but Empire did too in the first few episodes. The show definitely needs a chance. Claws could be a "sleeper" and I look forward to each new episode.

"TNT" has a new wild far out brash and bold crime series that involves five ladies who are just trying to make their way with life in the sunshine state. Set in Florida, "Claws" involves the life of a female mafia clan who run a nail salon, yet underneath the money involves blood, bullets, and scandal along with the typical bribes, loan sharking and just old fashioned get away fun! And the series is spiced up and blended nice with scenes of sex and clever plots that are a cover up to make the viewer think as to what type of mystery is going on. The ladies are lead by Niecy Nash in one of her strong and most blunt performances ever. Overall entertaining good crime drama series to watch that has plenty of sugar and spice.

The first season of Claws was excellent. It was a well written, campy dark comedy about a nail salon crew led by the hilarious and over the top Niecy Nash. It follows her various small time criminal shenanigans and her ambitions to grow an empire. Sort of a mix of Breaking Bad, Weeds, and Pushing Daisies. And it worked.

Season 2 got a little weird. They started throwing in these completely random musical interludes, moderated presidential style debates between characters, just random nonsense. I can see and appreciate them trying to play around creatively, but I personally just found it unfunny and distracting from the actual storyline. If you skip those parts though, still pretty good.

Season 3, they throw in the politics. There's an entire episode that can basically be summed up as "Orange Man Bad." We get it. The orange man is bad. Just enough already, seriously. So many quality shows and movies have been absolutely ruined by this childish, vapid nonsense. Whether I personally agree with the positions or not is completely irrelevant. If I want to be disingenuously pandered to and/or pretentiously lectured to about irrelevant political topics, I'll sign up for Twitter. I watch TV to be entertained.

I don't even want to know the political leanings of the writers, directors, actors, extras, or whoever is holding the boom or serving the coffee.

Being that the worst of it was only one episode, it wasn't enough to completely give up the series yet. I'm just hoping it's like the bizarre musical interludes in that it's something they were trying out, they'll realize it's distracting and idiotic, and they'll get back to the storylines (which in a lot of cases are actually pretty interesting and well executed).