Review by eadverts

Really bad idea. Maybe it will get better but all these actors are really bad fits for this show. William H Macy, is stilted and awkward in the roll of Frank, He's too good for this role, the Sex scenes are just not sexy, and the brutal genius of the original series just doesn't translate. At all.

The Awful, Awful, (and occasionally charming) people of the original series is just going to be to hard to recreate. It might be different if I hadn't seen the original series (the one I continue to watch) but the complete degradation, attitude and flat out despicable-ness of the original characters can in no way be mimicked in a new version. You had to grow with these characters in order to mine the depths of the ugliness they create for themselves, and I can't see myself going through this again in an American version that I already know the plot to. For me it doesn't work at all. For those who haven't seen the British version, maybe it will work.