One of my all time favorites.

not horrible nor great

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I'm not a paid shill nor am I on drugs but I thought this was exceptional TV viewing. Neither have I seen the Syndicate, so am not able to compare it as a copied version of something else (although it made me think of the UK series "At Home with the Braithwaites" - which was fantastic.) Winning the lottery (or not)is a reality of our lives so this show is relatable to many. It has some humour and lots of heart. The characters were all middle to lower income folk with different situations (ex-con, single mom, childless couple, parents living with parents, happily married Latino, Asian student with a pre-arranged marriage looming) so they show a different perspective about their lives than some viewers may be exposed to first hand, and made them interesting. It also made you want them to win. The robbery in the first episode sets up the suspense value which seems critical to the success of many TV shows these days. The connection between the employees shows individual character flaws and strengths. You care about these people. They seem real even though you know they aren't. The acting here was very well done. What a shame this show didn't last. We didn't contribute to the ratings as we didn't even know it was coming. We found it by accident On Demand and were pleasantly surprised. We'll watch the second episode for sure but wish there were more to come.

I just looked up three episodes of The Syndicate's second season on Youtube and even tho it isn't the same characters, undeniably The Syndicate emerged a better show, so why did the American Lucky 7 bomb? For starters, the show had virtually no publicity promotion and was buried on Tuesday night. I got to see the second episode before it was cancelled and quite honestly, it really seemed more like it could have been on an hour earlier.The deal is, even tho I haven't seen the first season of The Syndicate, that I can take a wild shot in the dark this Americanized version was going to be whittled to bits, polished up to quite honestly make the characters likable, whereas the English version, they were very flawed characters.In the second season, a lottery winner was an abused wife who couldn't leave her abusive husband. She wasn't strong enough. Someone else actually had to give her the out.Had this gotten the American treatment, she would have suddenly had the nerve, or more likely, she would have already put him out before she won the money, so she could be strong without the cash, then he comes back and she gets to tell him off that way.This is Hollywood's problem; too much soapboxing.What was seen of this second episode, with the two brothers, the one who didn't hit the other fellow, HE's feeling guilty. He would only be an accessory, but he's guilty! "I don't know, how can I look my kids in the face?" So the guy who was mugged, while he's in the hospital, it's learned he has a brain tumor. Now had he NOT been mugged, this would have never been discovered, so he is GRATEFUL to the mugger! The brother who committed the mugging, he smiles and tells his brother they are homefree. They did a good thing."I don't know." Come on, dude, take a side! This is the American touch, too overly moralistic.After watching what I did see of the second season of The Syndicate, I can only guess who the first season was handled.Lucky 7 must look like nothing more than a rough draft, an outline of the much more complete Syndicate.Unfortunately, I got to say, Lucky 7 deserved cancellation.

The people at a small convenient store suddenly become millionaires after winning the lottery. Bob Harris (Isiah Whitlock Jr) got knocked out when the Korzak brothers (Stephen Louis Grush, Matt Long) schemed to rob the store. Samira Lashari (Summer Bishil) is trying to live her life without her old fashion father. Denise Dibinksy (Lorraine Bruce) has a slob of a husband. Leanne Maxwell (Anastasia Phillips) is a single mother with a secret. Antonio Clemente (Luis Antonio Ramos) got left out of the lottery.The pilot episode was absolutely awful. It was a complete mess. There was no need for it. The second episode was much better, but the damage was already done. ABC canceled it after only 2 episodes.The characters have some unlikeability problems, and the actors are all unknowns. This didn't really have a chance. They didn't really need to copy a British show. They already tried a lottery show back in 2006 and it didn't last much longer than this one. And back then the TV landscape wasn't as fractured.

This was without doubt the worst TV pilot I have ever seen and I turned it off after 1/2 an hour which is 25 minutes longer than I should have watched it but I kept thinking it has to get better. This show has nothing that would appeal to anyone unless they were on drugs: unattractive cast, lousy acting, lousy directing, cliché story-line. Whoever green lighted this should be blacklisted from the entertainment industry and investigated. I still am in shock that someone would green-light a TV Series and Pilot this bad.As an aside to show you how ridiculous IMDb is and how IMDb ratings are phony and useless, a bunch of paid shills must have voted this a 7.5