Dirty Sexy Money is a guilty pleasure. It is a soap opera about a powerful rich family, the Darlings, led by an amazing Donald Sutherland. But to say that the Darlings don't need help, is like saying Sarah Palin is on top of policy issues: It just ain't true!
The Darlings are as in trouble as any family on TV...whether it is the son running for the Senate that has a transsexual mistress, or the daughter that goes from affair to affair, or the twins, who have never had, and never want responsibility. And so the Darlings need a keeper for their zoo. And that keeper is their reluctant family lawyer, Nick, played by Peter Krause.
He does not want to be the family lawyer...his father was before him, and he saw how that destroyed his father's life. But when the Darlings make an offer he can't refuse (millions to charities of his choice) he goes ahead and works for them.
This is escapist TV at some of its best. And the premiere totally lived up to last season, probably surpassing it in its excess. Krause plays Nick very well, and Sutherland is at the top of his game as the head of the Darlings, spinning his webs and oozing with money and mock concern.
Dirty Sexy Money may be the best prime time soap opera since Dallas, and it may be better because of its rich infusion of humor.
Fun TV, that is for sure.
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