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| Chris O'Dowd | ... | ||
| Ray Romano | ... | ||
| Sean Bridgers | ... |
Louis Darnell
10 episodes, 2017
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| Carolyn Dodd | ... |
Emma Daly
10 episodes, 2017
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| Lidia Porto | ... |
Amara De Escalones
10 episodes, 2017
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| Goya Robles | ... |
Yago
10 episodes, 2017
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| Lucy Walters | ... |
Katie Daly
10 episodes, 2017
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| Isaac Keys | ... | ||
| Megan Stevenson | ... |
April Quinn
9 episodes, 2017
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| Sarah Stiles | ... | ||
| Sasha Feldman | ... |
Bliz
8 episodes, 2017
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| Ryan Begay | ... |
Clipper
7 episodes, 2017
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| Billy Magnussen | ... |
Nathan Hill
6 episodes, 2017
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| Bruce McIntosh | ... |
George
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6 episodes, 2017
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| Peter Stormare | ... | ||
| Kristoffer Polaha | ... |
Jeffrey
5 episodes, 2017
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| Phil LaMarr | ... |
Brandon Fisher
5 episodes, 2017
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| Antwon Tanner | ... |
Lyle
5 episodes, 2017
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The adventures of mobster-turned-movie producer Hollywood. TV show based on Elmore Leonard's novel and subsequent film.
While most of the user reviews here love this show, I found the series opener slow and dull. The basic idea of a thug looking for a career change becoming a Hollywood producer is a good one, but the plot unfolds slowly and the series is more funny in theory than practice.
It's perhaps not fair to compare the series with the movie, since star Chris O'Dowd is not playing the same character as John Travolta played in the movie and the series bills itself as "loosely based" on the book. But the important thing is not that Chris Dowd plays a different character, but that his sad-sack killer cannot hold one's attention the way Travolta did. I like Dowd in general, but I don't find him interesting here.
Instead of slowly pulling me in, I felt the pilot was pushing me out; by the end I was desperate to move on.