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 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.