Big Shots

Finally a drama show that looks from the male perspective. No soppy dialogs and heartbreaking music, light dramastorylines fill the episode and makes it so attractive. The mainroles are pretty ok and the situations they come in and how they handle them. I like the show, but won't get attached unless the show is picked up for a season. Why? Because it's that kind of show you can enjoy without being addicted, but you'll miss it when it's gone. In short; nice storylines, a refreshing perspective and definatly worth the try. I'm sorry it took months before I checked it out.

Yup, that about sums this show up for me. Nothing original, nothing really worth sticking around for. While I wouldn't say it's the worst show this year, it's definetly close to the bottom. I can't think of one positive thing about this show. I got so many better things I could watch then this. It just doesn't have any of the qualities a good show should have and this show is a huge waste of the Grey's lead-in. Of all the shows they could've promoted after Grey's, they had to pick this one. ABC, this is not one of your winners.

I watched the pilot it was paced nicely, sex, death, henpicked husband? maybe.. notice we never got a look at his wife! just her back. Couples therapy for wife and mistress that's funny. Boss fires James and he finds out his wife was having an affair with his now dead boss. I'm not sure if I will watch this show on a regular basis, there was something missing I don't know if I care about these guys they have everything good jobs no they are the top dogs and they don't act like it. Only James had the balls to stand up to the board and he got made C.E.O. for it. Only time will tell.

I liked it...well most of it anyways. It was really funny the way the characters spoke, though they were often in serious discussions. I found myself laughing more often than I expected, and I thought "Wow! Who knew...I like this pilot!" At first I thought this was only a comedy...then I learned it was a dramidy (comedy + drama). Overall, it fulfills this genre very nice...unlike most dramidies. I hope this series succeeds for a second season...but only time will tell. I don't like one sub-plot though: the daughter-father sub-plot. I felt it was...to out of place. While the others are having women (or half women) problems, the guy has a problem with his daughter.



Hopefully soon I can tell which character is which.

I really loved this pilot. I think it has an excellent cast that works very well together. I can see them relying on each other to get through the rough times. Each one has their own roles. James as described by the network is the moral center, he's the one that's going to keep them on the right track. He's hurt by his wife's affair but I think he still wants to make it work. Duncan, he'll come up with the underhanded way to get what he wants. I also like the mix in his life. His ex-wife now widowed, they're finding that they can now have a great sex life. I think Dylan McDermott does a great job in this role, he shows that in some ways he wants her back in his life, but she knows he wouldn't stay interested. The problems with his daughter. He wasn't around and now she's making him pay.



Brody, he's the joker in the group. He'll make them laugh no matter what the problem is. Every group has one and it's necessary. When James tells them about the wife cheating and he says they would go after the boss but Hector already took care of it. How could you not laugh at that? Karl is probably my least favorite but how could you not feel sorry for him. His wife and mistress are going to drive him crazy. For me the pilot was perfect I can see where other people had some problems with it, but I think it was a great start for what I'm sure will be a great series.

Clearly, the sexy, creative, twisting plotlines of a popular show would attract either a spin-off (like Gray's Anatomy's Private Practice) or a knock off (like how Crossing Jordan could be said to be a knock off of CSI). Thus, it was almost inevitable that Desperate Housewives, the wildly popular show revolving around the different women on Wisteria Lane, would lead to the development of a knock-off, and Big Shots could definitely be said to be that show.

A death to start off the show? Check, ding-dong, James' boss is dead. Steamy affair? Yup, Karl is sleeping around on his wife. Divorcee sleeping with his former partner? Just like Susan, Duncan is still seeing his ex-wife. And whipped and frustrated spouse? Brody had a business degree from Harvard, but is still practically his wife's slave. Blackmail, she-males, and cocktails rule the show.

This show could go either way. Either it will follow the same formulaic plot lines as Desperate Housewives, which could work despite its lack of orginality, or it could find its own stride and come up with new and exciting plots and twists.

I really wanted to like this show. It had all the elements of greatness. A great cast of talented actors. I have loved Joshua Malina since his days on Sports Night and I would watch Dylan McDermott do anything. It also has interesting premise. All of the story lines should promise but, it the end it felt like they were trying to hard. I really liked the Duncan and Cameron interactions. You could tell there is still a lot of love beneath the dysfunctional father/daughter relationship. I also thought that Dontrelle the tranny-hooker was hilarious. Overall, I did not hate it and I will defiantly try it again next week but I hope it gets better.

I wanted to love this show, it has the stars, the clout, the reputations of excellence, and the hype, but it just tried to hard, way to hard. It tried to like it but every time I liked it they tried to hard again. If they would have stopped the twisting and turning half way through the episode it would have been fine, but they gave the daughter way to much power, the allowed a tranny hooker into a building way late on a Friday night and he/she somehow ran into the daughter in the messy store room. I can follow the mistress making nice w/ the woman she's "replacing", and the boss that his wife was sleeping with dying, but the pesky daughter getting a hold of Duncan by the "base" in the pilot episode, while the reporter nabs the tranny hookers and forge's espionage or what not is beyond the scope of a pilot episode. If they had drawn them out over the next 2-3 episodes it would have worked much better, but my hope is that Brody can save everybody and restart w/ a cleaner slate 4 episodes in.