Just perfect...

Absolutely the worst movie.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I have been an avid follower since the beginning. All the actors are great and the characters are good. This latest episode however, "Sons of Nevada", must have been written by a 3rd Grader. The premise of this episode is that Sheriff Lamb's Wife was murdered and O'Connell almost killed by Porter Gainslie (tampered with their brakes). Lamb has his badge taken away and decides to KILL Porter....out of character but so far OK.Lamb then trades Savino his evidence tapes for his assistance. Lamb needs Savino's help to shoot someone???? They botch the attempt which results in blackmailing the hit-man that bakes cookies to set up Gainslie for an ambush....getting even worse! Lamb's crew gets the drop on Gainslie and his crew with no shots fired. Lamb gets cold feet, puts him in handcuffs and the FBI magically arrive to take Gainslie into custody. HOLD ON HERE! The FBI had nothing on Gainslie otherwise they would have arrested him 6 scenes earlier.

CBS should be ashamed of themselves for putting the show on Friday nights from Tuesday nights. As really what in the world are they thinking by putting it on Fridays as that is a dead night of TV.Anyway, Dennis Quaid makes his first TV regular gig as no-nonsense Sheriff Ralph Lamb based on the real life sheriff in Vegas in the 1960s-1970s. As he wants to clean up Vegas and deputizes two men, including his own son.A great antagonist is "The Shield's" Michael Chiklis as Savino. Who comes from Chicago to Vegas to run a mob run casino. As both characters collide as they try to outwit one another week in and week out.Lamb always outsmarts Savino but Savino is down but definitely not out regardless. Great writing and acting. As Quaid settles down in a regular TV gig. Chiklis an old TV pro, is nasty in a good kind of way as the main antagonist.

I am enjoying Vegas and love love love Dennis Quaid. I agree with some others that the voice thing they are having Quaid use is very distracting. He is really thin too. Is he well? Michael Chiklis is great too with just enough menace to be believable. But is it just me or is Sarah Jones wearing a wig? If so, it is terrible. She has beautiful hair, why don't they make it better? The french roll looks like it was done on a plastic head and then pulled over her head. It would be nice to see the brothers do more work at their ranch too. It has become a little tired that they spend all their time at the city. Who is running their ranch while they are gone? The first episode showed Quaid quite protective of his ranch and now he doesn't spend much time there.

Given the cast and the premise portrayed in the trailers, I wanted to like this one. But awful, dreadful, terrible would be apt descriptions. I'd like to have given it a 0, but that wasn't an option.Dialog - definitely not from the time frame of the story line (50's-60's); more like today's dialog. Writers - if you're going to do period plots, the dialog needs to match the time frame.Direction - again, not from the period. Make it believable. Watch some movies from the 50's - maybe that'll give you a clue.Acting - well, OK - they have to work with the dialog and direction they were given, so I'll give it a passing grade. Hard not to like seasoned vets like Quaid and Moss.Sets - the cars, the photoshopped Fremont St. backgrounds, all first rate and much appreciated - very realistic to the period. Again, too bad the dialog and direction destroy the mood so badly that it is very hard to watch.I don't give this show more than 1 season, if it even lasts that long.