My God I’ve been busy. But, I have finally finished watching the last 7 minutes of the penultimate [NOTE: I do not usually use the word penultimate, but it seemed like it would save on typing... this of course would have been true had I not been compelled to write this note] episode of the first season of The Riches, and then the final episode.
I still really like this show. And, maybe it’s just that it plays to my favorite topics. I mean, I became a writer because I never felt all that good about the possibility of only living one life, and converting to Hinduism seemed like a bigger commitment. This is the story of people who spend all of their lives being other people.
I’d like to say that it’s a look at society from the outside, and in a way it is. It’s a look at a caricature of society, I’d wager for both the Travelers, and the Buffers. And that’s why it works.
As I said in my first post, it’s like a sitcom plot gone bad. Everything always seems on the verge of being given away, but that’s not it, really. Things are given away, things do change. Everything that can go wrong, does. But these people are professionals, and so they have a few tricks to avoid mayhem that should ensue.
In the final episodes, Dale, the former head of the Traveler’s camp, tracks down our heroes, and sets up shop with their biggest local enemy. He seems like the biggest possible threat to their carefully laid plans.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Pete, the best friend of the read Doug Rich, the dead man whose family they are all claiming to be, arrives on the scene.
These two dangerous problems move in closer and closer, and in the final minutes of the season finale…
Well, that’s not the point of this blog. Seriously, check out this show if you haven’t.