The Riches and the problem with rapidly escalating stakes.
Let’s kick this up a notch…
My love for FX’s The Riches is, this season, perfectly in line with my fear for The Riches. Maybe it’s some sort of law that people outside of show business do not know about, but why must sequels always play that coy game of oneupmanship with its audience. BIGGER explosions! MORE twists! FRILLIER dresses! What no one ever remembers is that most of us who enjoy watching certain characters over and over is that we thought the original frilliness was just fine. More after the jump…
