The new Minnie Driver/Eddie Izzard show
March 11, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN
Chicago Sun-Times
They're called Irish travelers, a sort of gypsy. The Malloys are a family of con artists. But they've come to a crossroads -- on a road, no less -- and decided to steal the identity of a dead couple, move into the couple's house and forge a more stable life.
Fortunately for them, clueless neighbors in this Louisiana town never met the couple they impersonate. So all Wayne (Eddie Izzard) and Dahlia (Minnie Driver) have to do is connive their way through this new and rough as
Producers of FX's "The Riches" say there's no other show on TV like this, but HBO's three-Mormon-wives drama "Big Love" is slightly similar. In both, the protagonist family lives a secret life while a rival family of the same ilk is out to get them.
There's a lot going on in "The Riches." Soon enough, Wayne will consider faking his way through a real job. Dahlia must adjust to being freed from prison while raising three kids and struggling with a nasty drug habit.
The show's first three episodes don't always land their punches. But "The Riches" takes daring swings. And the acting, especially in Monday's debut, is as good as it gets on TV.
Comedian-turned-actor Eddie Izzard finds the sinister but conscientious soul of Wayne, slyly talking himself into bounty and out of sticky situations. Minnie Driver is nothing short of remarkable, making Dahlia multifaceted and at times funny.
There's room for improvement. The first episode is excellently textured. A few upcoming episodes get bogged by slack scripts and workaday direction, though the show is in the reliable hands of producers who drafted HBO's "Carnivale."
"The Riches" works best when it's more dramatic and subtly comic than when it sometimes unravels into broad eccentricity.
But it's a good start for a good show, whose tone is best when not loud. In the premiere, Wayne quietly recites a William Stafford poem summing up the hopeful drift of his family of traveling thieves:
" 'Who are you really, wanderer?' / and the answer you have to give / no matter how dark and cold / the world around you is: / 'Maybe I'm a king.' "
Wayne is royally deceptive. He's even hustled himself into believing his biggest lie, that everything will be turn out just fine.
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