The second and third episodes, helmed by Weeds veterans Craig Zisk and Michael Trim, veer in the direction of less effective comedy, unsure if Charlie’s hallucinations are meant to be funny or disturbing or spiritual. The pilot, well directed by Johan Renck ( Vikings), counters narrative darkness with SoCal sunniness and humor stemming from the tackiness of this scam trade. ![]() Throwing in a subplot with a Romani cultural society bent on advancing images of their people beyond fraud and flimflam and I had a couple, “This is a good, different world for a TV show” moments, before Shut Eye too often left the unique behind for a more conventional con man story and stale cable boundary-pushing on sex and violence and exhausted-looking antiheroes.Įach episode has a different tone. The pity is that he’s landed on such a great backdrop! With their neon signage, most featuring a distinctive palm insignia, parlor-shop psychics, many in seemingly residential areas, are such a fascinating phenomenon, and when you throw in the influence of the Romani and start using jargon like “ bujo” and “the egg curse scam,” that really ought to have been enough for a series. After suffering some sort of skull injury, Charlie is maybe hearing voices or maybe having visions or something.Ĭreator Les Bohem, whom I’ll always admire for his work on the terrific, less-celebrated-than-it-should-be, Spielberg-produced miniseries Taken, attacks Shut Eye with an attention deficit so acute it’s no wonder that recreational use of Adderall is both a plot point and a plot point that gets pushed aside when something differently shiny catches Bohem’s eye. There are lots of variably involving misadventures with a potentially lucrative whale (of the mark variety) played by Mel Harris, an amoral drug lord (David Zayas), the typical cable drama teenage bumbling from Charlie’s son (Dylan Schmid) and the arrival of an unpredictable hypnotist ( Emmanuelle Chriqui), but everything gets truly messed up when Charlie’s advice leads to a beating at the hands of a client’s ex. Charlie is “ gaje,” or a non-gypsy, and he’s essentially picking up scraps, which frustrates his former Vegas stripper wife Linda ( KaDee Strickland), who remember when her hubby used to be a real man. Charlie is working as a psychic, gently bilking clients and paying up to slovenly, malicious Romani gangster Fonzo (Angus Sampson, who played Donovan’s brother in the second season of Fargo), whose family (including Isabella Rossellini’s icy matriarch Rita) controls all of the psychic and fortunetelling businesses in L.A. Jeffrey Donovan, who played something of a con man in Burn Notice, stars as Charlie, whose backstory includes time spent as a designer of ambitious magic tricks in Las Vegas, one of many details that I assume will eventually pay off but have been, in the episodes I’ve seen, just a tease. Katherine's supervisor Vivian Mitchell(Kirsten Dunst) assigns her to assist Al Harrison(Kevin Costner) space task group, Katherine becomes the first African American team member to assist in a key group and even work in the building that doesn’t even have a bathroom for coloured people.Hulu Shifts to Binge Model for Psychic Drama 'Shut Eye' ![]() ![]() Following the successful Russian satellite launch there was pressure on America to send one of their own in space. They crossed gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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