Windfall **Series Premiere/Pilot** - 06/08/06
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Windfall **Series Premiere/Pilot** - 06/08/06
"Pilot"
Twenty friends unexpectedly become millionaires; new wealth challenges relationships; lives are forever changed.
Cast: Luke Perry, Jason Gedrick, Lana Parrilla, Sarah Wynter, D.J. Cotrona, Jon Foster, Alice Greczyn, Jaclyn DeSantis.
Producer(s): Laurie McCarthy.
Original Airdate: June 8, 2006.
Windfall
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Looks like this will be re-broadcast three times for those that can't catch tonight's ep:
Jun 09 9:00/8:00pm
Jun 11 10:00/9:00pm
Jun 15 9:00/8:00pm
Twenty friends unexpectedly become millionaires; new wealth challenges relationships; lives are forever changed.
Cast: Luke Perry, Jason Gedrick, Lana Parrilla, Sarah Wynter, D.J. Cotrona, Jon Foster, Alice Greczyn, Jaclyn DeSantis.
Producer(s): Laurie McCarthy.
Original Airdate: June 8, 2006.
Windfall
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Looks like this will be re-broadcast three times for those that can't catch tonight's ep:
Jun 09 9:00/8:00pm
Jun 11 10:00/9:00pm
Jun 15 9:00/8:00pm
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I think I read this series had been sitting on the shelf for nearly a year? Did anyone else hear the same?
That's not going to change the fact that I'll be checking it out.
That's not going to change the fact that I'll be checking it out.
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I'm going to watch. It doesn't bode well that they are premiering this show in the summer. And Jason Gedrick is in it and we all know he is the kiss of death for a series.
Needless to say, I'm going in to it not expecting to get too attached.
Needless to say, I'm going in to it not expecting to get too attached.
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Originally Posted by djbrown
Ouch. I've got it set to record. We'll give it a try. If it does not work out, I've got a ton of 4400 episodes to start watching anyway.
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Originally Posted by Jadzia
I'm going to watch. It doesn't bode well that they are premiering this show in the summer. And Jason Gedrick is in it and we all know he is the kiss of death for a series.
Needless to say, I'm going in to it not expecting to get too attached.
Needless to say, I'm going in to it not expecting to get too attached.
I'm going to watch.
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Originally Posted by djbrown
I don't put any stock in what Robert Bianco says. Just look at his list of Emmy noms.
At the same time, I'm not expecting much since NBC put it out to pasture in the summer.
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Originally Posted by rkndkn
Exactly -- I call him "the king of cancellation". BUT, he has been in 3 terrific series of varying short-livedness -- EZ Streets, Murder One and Boomtown. (I didn't watch "Falcone".)
I'm going to watch.
I'm going to watch.
I will check this out.
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It was pretty much average, but I already got tired of the Gedrick/Parilla subplot after 20 minutes. For some reason, most of the "dramatic" subplots seem to be just a hodge-podge of "bad things that happen to lottery winners" without developing interesting characters first.
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I don't put any stock in what Robert Bianco says. Just look at his list of Emmy noms.
At the same time, I'm not expecting much since NBC put it out to pasture in the summer.
At the same time, I'm not expecting much since NBC put it out to pasture in the summer.
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What happened when they went to the store to buy the tickets? There was some guy there and he pocketed something I think? I didn't get it. I thought he might have gotten the tickets but they all got their money.
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I think I read this series had been sitting on the shelf for nearly a year? Did anyone else hear the same?
That's not going to change the fact that I'll be checking it out.
That's not going to change the fact that I'll be checking it out.
As for the show, I got the feeling that there was a lot cut from the show, as a lot of the scenes just felt like they ended too early, and the cuts between scenes just seemed to be pasted pooly, the flow of the show suffered, and I think they had way too many storylines set up in one episode (alt6hough I understand you have to get everyone in the pilot).
If the future episodes are more focused, with fewer stories every week, it could work, but I do think they got into the "leeches" too quickly, I think the girl with the baby should have been held over until the next episode or later, as they just seem to be piling too much on the plate.
Not that I expect it to last, but using up these easily built plot devices so early doesn't bode well to future episodes.
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Originally Posted by Daniel-A
What happened when they went to the store to buy the tickets? There was some guy there and he pocketed something I think? I didn't get it. I thought he might have gotten the tickets but they all got their money.
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Originally Posted by Patman
For some reason, most of the "dramatic" subplots seem to be just a hodge-podge of "bad things that happen to lottery winners"
Spoiler:
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I only made it half way through, then I flipped it over to something else during a commercial and didn't go back. Like twikoff said, I didn't realize it was going to be soapish. I thought it was going to be a different lottery winner every week and show what happens to them, kind of like the old show "The Millionaire."
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Just watched it...no thanks, way too much going on. And it's good to see that people with f-ed up lives hang out together, because all 19 seem ridiculous. There were also way too many gold-diggers showing up ALREADY.
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If I won the lottery, as soon as I got the money in the bank, I would be gone, gone, gone. Ain't no one-night-stand going to show up and tell me that's my kid!