Luck, Season 1, Episode 8
Written by John R. Perrotta and Jay Hovdey
Directed by Allen Coulter
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on HBO
This week, Mike had Nathan Israel cut up into little pieces, wrapped in plastic, and thrown overboard, never to be seen again. A similar fate befell Luck itself in the same week. After a third horse died on set – though apparently not while filming was taking place – HBO and the show’s producers agreed to halt production on the already-ordered Season 2, on which they already wrapped two episodes. (I’ve seen some people claim HBO will air these episodes; I have my doubts, and think they’d probably be better suited to getting tacked onto a DVD set of the first, and now only, season.)
So, very suddenly, the end of Luck as a whole is very near. Mo Ryan already hit most of the points I’d...
Written by John R. Perrotta and Jay Hovdey
Directed by Allen Coulter
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on HBO
This week, Mike had Nathan Israel cut up into little pieces, wrapped in plastic, and thrown overboard, never to be seen again. A similar fate befell Luck itself in the same week. After a third horse died on set – though apparently not while filming was taking place – HBO and the show’s producers agreed to halt production on the already-ordered Season 2, on which they already wrapped two episodes. (I’ve seen some people claim HBO will air these episodes; I have my doubts, and think they’d probably be better suited to getting tacked onto a DVD set of the first, and now only, season.)
So, very suddenly, the end of Luck as a whole is very near. Mo Ryan already hit most of the points I’d...
- 3/19/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
"They killed him, Gus. They fucking killed him." So says Chester "Ace" Bernstein in the second-to-last episode of Luck. It's a chilling line for both textual and extratextual reasons: Ace's protégé, representative, and triple-agent Nathan Israel is dead, killed by Ace's enemy Mike on his yacht last episode. But Luck is dead, too: canceled by HBO after the death of a third horse during production of the show's second season. Near-death experiences are as rare on TV as they are in life. When we watch episode eight of Luck's first season, directed by Allen Coulter and written by John R. Perotta and Jay Hovdey, what we're seeing is very likely the penultimate episode of Luck's only season. The season finale will double as the series finale. An image comes to mind of Deadwood's Al Swearengen cleaning blood off a floor.Director Coulter cuts from shots of Mike to...
- 3/19/2012
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
Luck, Season One, Episode Four
Written by Jay Hovdey
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Airs Sundays at 10pm Est on HBO
Several of the small legion of critics who have access to Luck‘s entire first season have been claiming for weeks that it’s in this fourth installment that the show really kicks it up a notch and finds its rhythm. Sure enough, “Episode Four” does constitute a slight upward tick in urgency, but it thankfully still retains the bizarro qualities that have kept the show so distinct (and distinctly Milchian).
Most improved this week: the Ace Bernstein side of the equation. Both major developments on his front this week – the first face-to-face with the mythical Mike (Michael Gambon) and the establishment of a maybe-courtship with horse-shelter activist Clare Lachay (Joan Allen) – go off nicely and with a noted lack of obvious expository dialogue. Watching titans like Gambon and Hoffman...
Written by Jay Hovdey
Directed by Phillip Noyce
Airs Sundays at 10pm Est on HBO
Several of the small legion of critics who have access to Luck‘s entire first season have been claiming for weeks that it’s in this fourth installment that the show really kicks it up a notch and finds its rhythm. Sure enough, “Episode Four” does constitute a slight upward tick in urgency, but it thankfully still retains the bizarro qualities that have kept the show so distinct (and distinctly Milchian).
Most improved this week: the Ace Bernstein side of the equation. Both major developments on his front this week – the first face-to-face with the mythical Mike (Michael Gambon) and the establishment of a maybe-courtship with horse-shelter activist Clare Lachay (Joan Allen) – go off nicely and with a noted lack of obvious expository dialogue. Watching titans like Gambon and Hoffman...
- 2/20/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
“Luck is the residue of design.” Or is it? Whether or not Branch Rickey’s famous dictum – an appeal to reason and not the gods – is true lies at the heart of the fourth episode of Luck, written by staffer Jay Hovdey and directed by Philip Noyce (“Salt”). The question also illuminates what’s right and what’s wrong with the series. (If you don’t know Branch Rickey, the man who transformed baseball and with it American society, Jimmy Breslin’s fine short biography is a good place to start.) In the series as in life, there are gamblers who ignore the dictum entirely. They abandon themselves to the gods, who play...
- 2/20/2012
- by Terry Curtis Fox
- Thompson on Hollywood
Here is the ongoing episode guide for Luck Season 1 as new episode information is released by HBO. The series offers a behind-the-scenes look at horse racing and gamblings’ denizens – owners, trainers, jockeys and gamblers. Luck is from director Michael Mann and Deadwood creator David Milch. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.
Episodes descriptions are listed in reverse order with the newest episode first (scroll to the bottom to avoid spoilers):
Episode #5
Debut: Sunday, Feb. 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
After learning that Pint of Plain, Gus’ (Dennis Farina) Irish horse, has been tentatively scheduled to race the next day, Ace forces Escalante to swap out Leon for a more experienced jockey, to Joey’s (Richard Kind) chagrin. Marcus fears for his health and wonders why he’s so attached to Jerry, while Kagle (Peter Appel), who’s been fired from the racetrack, returns from a bender looking for a handout.
Episodes descriptions are listed in reverse order with the newest episode first (scroll to the bottom to avoid spoilers):
Episode #5
Debut: Sunday, Feb. 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
After learning that Pint of Plain, Gus’ (Dennis Farina) Irish horse, has been tentatively scheduled to race the next day, Ace forces Escalante to swap out Leon for a more experienced jockey, to Joey’s (Richard Kind) chagrin. Marcus fears for his health and wonders why he’s so attached to Jerry, while Kagle (Peter Appel), who’s been fired from the racetrack, returns from a bender looking for a handout.
- 1/25/2012
- by Buzzfocus Staff
- BuzzFocus.com
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