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Las Vegas
Mike McGann
09/01/2005
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Produced by: NBC Studios and DreamWorks Television
Network: NBC
Scheduled: Monday, 9 p.m.
Reviewed on: WCAU Philadelphia
Channel: 10
 OK, I must be honest: I despise Las Vegas. The city, that is. Too many trade
shows, too many $8 bottles of aspirin, and too much of too little out in the
middle of the Nevada desert.
So leave it to NBC to set a prime-time soap
opera there in a casino. Even with James Caan fronting the cast, it’s about as
real as the pastrami in a sandwich at the New York-New York casino.
But it is
chock-full of pretty pictures and decent sound effects, which often make it the
best HDTV offering in its time slot. So, like dangling shiny keys in front of an
infant, this show has its value, much the way Miami Vice might have had if it
aired in the HDTV era. The music is an interesting mix of the hip-and-1960s
Vegas, which is kind of cool, even with a mediocre audio Dolby Digital surround
mix that’s typical of NBC.
Shot on film, the show has a pretty quick pace,
but not overly artsy, and generally lit well enough to get a movie feel, as
opposed to the old-style soundstage TV look, which is thankfully becoming a
thing of the past, as it looks so poor in HDTV.
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