Now, I'm not trying to knock Tarantino here. The best that can be said about Holtz is that he's no Quentin Tarantino. On the flip side we have Zane Holts as Richie Gecko. He's a hard act to follow but, after a few episodes, Cotrona finds a way to breathe his own life into the roles, moving past trying to be "Clooney for the Small Screen" (which, as per any number of television roles he inhabited, was still Clooney) and just playing Seth Gecko. When the man is on his game (which he was, having a weird, fun time in the original film), Clooney can knock a performance out of the park. It helps that the cast is game to play around within their roles and the expanded universe they have to work with. It's really odd when you first see these vampires in action in the series, but then it just gets worked into the mythos and it eventually just works. What I will note is that the original film had nods to that culture as well (remember, the end scene shows the Titty Twister was built on an ancient Aztec pyramid). I'm not going to try and bill myself as a scholar of Mesoamerican mythology so I can't speak to how well the snake-people play with that context. Still, making the vampires into weird undead snake-human hybrids is certain a strange, bold decision that's about as far from normal vampires as you could get while still saying "hey, they have fangs and drink blood so they're vampires." Let's be honest, the vampires in the original From Dusk Till Dawn weren't a normal pack of vamps - they were gross and demonic and just about as un-sexy as you could get. The first difference, and the biggest thing that may throw traditional vampire loves off, is that these are Mesoamerican-themed vampires. Anyone expecting anything similar to the original movie may end up disappointed by just how far out this movie travels, but it actually works to the service of the series that the creators were willing to follow new creative thoughts instead of simply saying "hey, let's remake From Dusk Till Dawn exactly as it was just 10 hours longer." She, along with just about everyone else they're about to meet up with when they arrive in Mexico at the Titty Twister, is a Mesoamerican vampire (a detail we'll cover soon), and the boys are in for one hell of a scary ride as their story unfolds.īilled as an expanded remake of the original movie (ignoring just about everything that's detailed in the later two direct-to-video sequel/prequels), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series takes that "expanded" note and seriously runs with it. What Seth doesn't know is that Richie has been in contact, mentally, the gorgeous Santanico Pandemonium. This leads Seth to kidnap a road-tripping family (father Jacob Fuller, daughter Kate and son Scott) and take them down to Mexico to wait for the law to back off. Richie, being just a tad unhinged (for reasons we'll get to in a second), ends up killing the one hostage the boys have taken (who was pretty much the only insurance they had if the long arm of the law caught up to them). They're criminals, bank robbers of the highest order, who've recently had a bad run of luck and are trying to hide out from the law after laying down a little too much carnage during a robbery gone bad. Just enough as usual with regards to the Sheriff )I think the ti-tty twister should be franchised world wide.Much as in the film of the same name, we open with two brothers, Seth and Richie Gecko, who are on the run from the law. Skull Vodka might have been a better prop then again I wouldn't have contained the vodka needed for that historical moment. The times slow motion effect s were used to the violin segment. I will also say even though this comment has to do with the first episode Thanks for treating your audience to Don Johnson OMG Eiza González smoky accent. The music the pelvic pistol though smaller for TV I guess ) the power plays, the timing. Wicked work thank you thank you thank you. I also love the tribute to QT by way of the foot scene. Then episode 7 raising the bar for strip shows in TV & Film demon style or any style,blew my mind every detail created the impact every facial expression every serpent from wall ornaments to the albino real deals. The series has been till episode 7 understandably slower than I expected, however character introductions and building the story made it all OK. When I heard the TV series was in the works I was elated. I will add every production is in its own class. OK I loved DTD the movie, Following RR and QT loyally ever since, never being let-down.
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