![]() It’s not surprising to see Chiklis being this good at playing this bad, but it’s hard to imagine anybody not enjoying him in this kind of role, despite the absence of anything revelatory or “different.” And Quaid gets better and better as he finds Ralph Lamb’s inner Frontier Sheriff, not that Quaid playing noble-and-taciturn is exactly revelatory either. Those things include Chiklis and Quaid going head-to-head in some of the most archetypal “Western” ways imaginable, actually wearing white and dark (“navy,” Chiklis told me at press tour, not “black”) cowboy hats in several scenes. It’s very solid and as the weeks have passed since I watched it, my mind has lingered on the things that work. With this creative team - James Mangold directing a script from Nicholas Pileggi - and this cast - Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis and Carrie-Anne Moss and Oliver from “The O.C.” - my expectations (or “hopes”) for “Vegas” was nothing short of “greatness.” And “Vegas” isn’t great. ![]() ![]() Quick Response: I did a video thingie for HuffPo last week and I had to come up with my favorite new drama of the fall and, somewhat unexpectedly, the answer that felt right-est to me was “Vegas.” This was a bit of a surprise, because my initial reaction to “Vegas” was predominantly one of disappointment. ![]()
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