So I didn't watch this pilot early, but everybody I know said it was good. So I went to the ABC website today and streamed it. Both the pilot and last night's episode. I gotta tell you, this show is good. THIS is how you make a show that has a little intrigue, naughtiness, trannies, and spoiled rich kids. Take that Gossip Girl, and shove it up your asses. Sorry, that show offends me with it's stupidity.
The show centers around an attorney, the lovely and talented Mr. Peter Krause, who's father worked his entire life for the filthy rich Darling family. When his father dies suddenly in a mysterious plane crash, Nick decides to take his father's place as lawyer, confidante and protector, especially to Daddy Darling, Tripp, played by the love of my life's real life father, Donald Sutherland. One of these people may have killed his father, and finding out the truth is his number one priority. Of course, the $10 million a year charity donation Nick gets to divvy out to the causes he used to put time into his a nice bonus. He won't become his father, who, by the way, had a 40 year affair with matriarch Letitia (snort) Darling. Anybody else think maybe Nick has a sibling in the family?
Can we talk about what a beautiful tranny this is?Nick has to babysit the younger Darling kids, including the not nearly as sexy as he used to be, looking a lot like Alec, Billy Baldwin, who being pushed by his father to run for the Senate, even though he's afraid his continual affairs with transgendered men will come to light. But, like his siblings, there's something sweetly endearing about him. Yeah, he's having an affair, with a man (sorta) but she really loves him and they have one of the more tender moments in the second episode.
The one problem I had with the first episode and most of the second was the one son, Brian, who I thought was a priest the whole time, who ends up having a young son that he knows about and refuses to take any responsibility for. Come to find out he's just a pastor, or something, because he has a wife and kids. So much better if he'd been a priest, but whatever. He's so miserable and such and asshole, for no real reason other then he's just a dick. Towards the end of the second episode though he starts to redeem himself.
A set of twins, one a would-be actress whose father pays her way through plays and who finally, with a good speech from Nick, decides to go her own way. Her twin brother, whom she seems very close to, is a drifter as well, but seemingly with a heart. He's wining and dining a girl behind his sister's back, but he feels bad about it. Let me also note that the actor who plays the twin brother was Famke Jensen's doomed son on Nip/Tuck forever ago. He was so good in that.
The second oldest sister is a thrice divorcee who is still in love with Nick, her first love, and lover, who she constantly tries to get, even though she has a fiancee and Nick is happily married. She's gonna get annoying, but maybe not. She knows who she is. She's a woman who can't find love because she's still in love with the one guy who treated her right. So she drinks and says inappropriate, yet funny, things.
And Nick's wife is a saint, love her, and love that they went against the norm and wrote her not to be the nag who annoys her husband into an affair. Even though he spent his whole life not wanting to because his father, she supports his decision, being his sounding board, and playing devil's advocate. Not to say she's a push over, but she's not your stereotypical TV wife. She's Jim from Ghost Whisperer. They have a daughter, played by Elle Fanning, sister to Dakota and his daughter in the Sci Fi mini-series The Lost Room. Oh, but I just found out that she's only in the pilot. That sucks, she's such a cutie.
What I like about this show, unlike that other tumor that is called Gossip Girl, is these people don't fit the stereotypes, at least not in the conventional spoiled brats sorta way. Are they spoiled, yeah of course they are, they're ridiculously rich, but there's something intriguing and compelling about them that I just want to watch. And as nutty as they are, I find myself actually caring about them.
Go to ABC and stream the first two episodes, you won't be let down.
