Just watched the pilot of this and I don't get to whom it is addressed...
Is it the past Audience? Who can recognize Bill Conti's theme played in the piano by a young Steven Carrington and know the characters already? I highly doubted since that audience is around 65-70 y.o. and can't understand and relate with the "modern" direction and editing and music of the 2017's version.
Is it a new Audience? Then why bother with this premise. Reviving an old series which was heavily based on the personas of actors like John Forsythe, Joan Collins and Linda Evans. The "aristocrat" look, without having similar actors to work with.
Anyway, such a reboot is a waste of time, in my opinion. It is basically realized because maybe the inspiration hit a ceiling and we live in the age of old reboots.
As a show its too light to watch. Too pseudo-arrogant and pretentious. None of the actual billionaires I watch interviews and such, are emphasizing words like in this show. "It is a deal of 500 MIIILLL-ion dollars", like a game show host or like in an advertisement.
And it tries too hard to "play" with the audience. like in the revelation/presentation of the Cristal character, which reach us to my original question "...to whom it is addressed?" The past audience won't watch it, the new audience won't get it.
Overall: I don't see a ...Dynasty grow out of this. It lacks the larger-than-life actors/characters of the original and its too pretentious for each own sake.
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