There's a worry that US drama is aping Hollywood by slipping into a morass of remakes and spin-offs. However, he's a cop who keeps counting down to his retirement, so perhaps we shouldn't get too attached just yet. Then there's Don Johnson's turn as a cop, which is easily the best aspect of the whole thing so far. That might be because Richie Gecko is shaping up to be the show's fulcrum, or perhaps it's just because everyone is a better actor than Quentin Tarantino. There's a very good chance that DJ Cotrona only got the part because a casting agent took a polaroid of George Clooney into the audition room and picked the closest match, but Zane Holtz is already a much more interesting prospect. The performances, too, sit on a spectrum of acceptability. At least this means that the hours before Not Clooney and Not Tarantino reach the Titty Twister might actually have some purpose.ĭon Johnson as Sheriff Earl McGraw in From Dusk Till Dawn. Also, unlike the film, the series has set up a cat-and-mouse game between the Geckos and a ranger. Or perhaps they'll just be pointless padding exercises that we'll have to endure. Perhaps by the end of the series, the flashbacks will help deepen the characters and contextualise their motives. This is largely signalled via the use of flashbacks. There are hints, however subtle, that the series aspires to be bigger than the film.

And then, when we get there, it'll be such a directionless, drawn-out spectacle of flashes and bangs that you may as well watch all the Transformers films back to back instead. If it's really going to be a much longer remake of the movie, we're about five hours away from seeing anything interesting. Unless you can't remember what happened in the first half of the film because you only watched it for the sexy vampire battle at the end.Īnd this seems to be the biggest problem with the series. They meet a Texas ranger and, if you've seen the film, you'll have a pretty good idea of what happens next. The Gecko brothers – here played by Not George Clooney and Not Quentin Tarantino – have robbed a bank and are heading to Mexico, but first they need to stop off at a liquor store. Directed by Robert Rodriguez himself, it's more or less an elongated version of the film's first eight minutes. On the basis of the first episode, which appeared on Netflix yesterday and aired on the El Rey network in the US, it's iffy.

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