I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

recommended

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I find it almost impossible to believe that this show gets such stellar ratings. The premise is great, but the writing and execution is horrendous. I am a big fan of Eddie Izzard and I like Minnie Driver as well. I find it depressing to see their talents squandered on abysmal writing.Eddie Izzard is the only saving grace of this show. His performance is the one and only reason I was able to make it through the first two episodes. Minnie Driver's character is beyond annoying and feels completely false. She really should not attempt a southern accent - it isn't remotely believable. Great idea for a character, but horrendous execution.I love offbeat, dark and quirky shows, but this one seriously missed the mark. What a disappointment.

The show had an interesting premise, so much so that, even given my 4/10 rating, I had to watch it to the bitter end. Unfortunately, the show didn't live up to its potential.The acting on the show was fairly good, but there were too many character developments and plot points that didn't seem to make good sense, or at least weren't developed thoroughly enough to make sense. Here are a few: 1) Sammy's gender battle. The youngest child, a boy named Sammy, kept wanting to be a girl and would oftentimes dress up as a girl despite the fact that it very well could have compromised their operation. This was kind of interesting at the outset, but they never went anywhere with it. The character himself never really went anywhere. He was just the quiet "other kid" who would occasionally dress like a girl at inopportune times. What was the point? Who knows. Also, what about the murals he kept drawing? Pointless.2) Dahlia's dentistry gig. As part of Dahlia's effort to take over the life of Mrs. Rich, she had to attend a job interview at a dentist office. Somehow, she got the job and managed to work at the office for a few days despite her obvious lack of qualifications. This was way too far fetched. I guess the writers understood this, because, with very little set up or mentioning of it afterwards, the Dentist that she was working for committed suicide when he couldn't handle the grief of having recently lost his wife. The office then closed down and she didn't have to work there anymore. How convenient! How random and pointless...seriously, why did they even have her work there in the first place? It added absolutely nothing to the plot or to her development.3) The family's "conscience" and their criticisms of the "buffer lifestyle". They are a family of travelers. They roam around the countryside in their RV scamming, pickpocketing, and otherwise conning their way through life at the expense of everyone they come across. They have no problem with this. For some reason, though, when they take over the lives of the Riches, their moral compass comes from nowhere and creates arbitrary drama. Whenever they cross into the slightest grey of moral areas, they freak out because they're supposedly these moral and righteous people who have the right to look down their noses at "buffers". Hello! At the start of the season, these people went into a High School reunion and pick pocketed EVERYONE there! And now they're freaking out about winning a court case against a lesbian couple, temporarily covering up someone's accidental murder (which they had ALREADY DONE when they took over the Riches' lives), or cutting Wayne's boss (a corrupt asshole) out of a multimillion dollar real estate deal? And yet, they had no problem scamming an ex-athlete who was in dire financial straits out of half a million dollars, or ripping off a woman who was suing because her arm was eaten by alligators, or selling a breeding Alpaca for $100,000 even though it was infertile, or any number of their other scams. Their selective morality just made no sense and got old very fast, especially when their son, Cael (the most ruthless and morally ambiguous traveler of all of them) ran away from home because of who they had "become". Come on...4) Dahlia's parole fiasco. Everything is going right for them. They're on track to get $13 million and retire for life. All they have to do is carry on like normal for just a few months. Then, out of nowhere, Dahlia gets some crazy idea after sitting in on an AA meeting to confess to the police that she is a parole violator (something that could get her thrown in prison and/or blow her family's whole operation). What in the world?! This made absolutely zero sense.I think the writers had just run out of good ideas and were trying to throw whatever mayhem they could think of into the mix. It just wasn't sustainable and it didn't work out.

Network: FX; Genre: Drama; Content Rating: TV-14 (strong language); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 – 4); Seasons Reviewed: Series (2 seasons) The only way to push the "Start" button on "The Riches" requires creator Dmitry Lipkin to pull off and the audience to accept one of the craziest premises to grace TV. Move over "Tru Calling".In the Pilot everything has to happen exactly as it does, exactly when it does in order for the show to make any sense at all. Wayne (Eddie Izzard) and Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) are the head of a family of travelers. They steal from the traveler's camp and are pursued by another family of travelers, who run a car off the road and then flee the scene, leaving the Malloy's come to the car's aid, to find the passengers have died. The passengers are Doug and Cherien Rich – "buffers" - and they happen to be on their way to a house that they have bought on the internet filled with furniture that has been pre-moved, to take jobs they have not interviewed for in person, in an elite gated community. The Malloys move in and assume the identity of the Riches. Soon Wayne/Doug is pretending to be a lawyer and Dahlia/Cherien is trying to get her kids into a private school. If the American dream is a big house, lots of things, reputable jobs and high social standing in the community, the Malloys have walked in and stolen it.After years of outrageous worst case scenario shows, "The Riches" is an FX drama that shows some welcome restraint. An admirable change from the nonsense that has overtaken "Nip/Tuck" and threatens "Rescue Me". The possibilities are almost endless here. Fish out of water comedy. Class warfare satire. The Malloy's in a feverish cat-and-mouse chase to stay one step in front of the con. Side-cons on the rich suckers of the community. Maybe a little "Six Feet Under" disconnected family drama. All the family members have differing takes on the con with Wayne spearheading it with gusto relishing his role as a smooth-talking lawyer, Dahlia and her son (Noel Fisher) ambivalent and increasingly tormented by it, while their daughter (Shannon Woodward) is finding her place in the school and their younger son (Aidan Mitchell) experiments with cross-dressing, a character quirk that the family is unconcerned about.Lipkin sets the stage for a juicy, thick new dramatic playground. But very quickly he starts to close it up. He only scratches the surface of this delicious premise in the following episodes with any potential fun cut short quickly when Dale (Todd Stashwick) a fellow traveler and royal redneck stumbles on the Malloys and threatens to expose them. "Riches" tugs itself in several directions and never fully getting anywhere. At times it veers toward quirky dark comedy, thanks to Gregg Henry as Doug's live-wire, gun-totting, half-insane boss at the law firm Hugh. Then at times it swings into straight crime drama as Wayne, Dale and Doug Riches' friend shows up with grim results. The show neither has fun with itself as a dark comedy nor raises the threat level enough as a compelling drama. When your big shocking season ending cliffhanger is yelping puppy Ayra Gross spinning around in a chair and "demanding" to see his best friend you might want to ratchet up the stakes just a bit – or leave it alone. Pick a side and commit.Izzard and Driver are quite good with what they've been given. Izzard chokes back his British accent but is commanding in the lead. Driver is superb, showing acting chops I had never seen in her. She was Emmy snubbed for the role. As a character serial drama, the show's chief problem may be that Lipkim, even after 2 seasons, keeps us at arm's length from the Malloys.I wanted to love "The Riches" and I'm not quite sure why it doesn't catch fire. Freshman series kinks? Writers showing too much restraint in a show that could have pushed a little bit more toward the edge? A lack of a clear vision on where to take it? I can't help but think that someone like Alan Ball or the "Mad Men" crew could have wrought the proper amount of yearning, family dysfunction and sly character bits out of this serial. What makes "The Riches" so tragic is not that it doesn't work, it's that it feels like a missed opportunity with such a unique and imaginative premise and game actors ready to follow it.* * ½ / 4

This is a good show. There are several areas where it is lacking i.e. believability, charisma between leads, but besides these, this show is truly original. Even if you look at the similar titles that IMDb might offer at the bottom of the page, none of them are even remotely close to this show. The idea of the American Gypsy is a rather undocumented story and this show gives a rather entertaining glimpse at an unraveled corner of it.I'm a huge Eddie Izzard fan and while he might not be suited to this character as such, he is still phenomenal. He plays it a lot less seriously than another actor might have, and definitely less seriously than the rest of the cast, but I think this gives his character a slight quirkiness that makes for incredibly entertaining situations at the law firm where he works. The charisma between Izzard and Minnie Driver seems strained and actually Izzard has better back and forth with Gregg Henry who plays his ethically-challenged boss.There is a constant feeling of urgency due to the rather convoluted-ness of the plot. The characters and the way of life that they are living seem to be hanging by a thread and every episode they have to out-think about a dozen different scenarios that threaten to cut it.It's entertaining television and if you've got time for another good series, this one is worth watching.