When I first heard about the Playboy club I was expecting a sleazy show showing how the playboy world works from magazines to movies. However this show is a mash up of Christina Aguilera’s Berlesque and AMC’s Mad Men. Might work on AMC, but NBC is too main stream, and good dramas take time to enter the main stream.
Step inside the world of the original Playboy Club in 1960′s Chicago and meet Maureen (Amber Heard) the newest ‘bunny’ who has dream of being a dancer not the cigarette girl she starts out as. Things don’t start well for Maureen as, while in a back room restocking her cigarettes, she is attacked by a man. Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian) comes in and tries to get the man off Maureen but he is overpowered, as the attacker crawls on top of Maureen again she kicks out at him and her heel goes through the mans neck. Nick notices who the man is – Head of the local Mafia – and says that they can not tell anyone what has happened. Inevitably the mob start asking question and the two are forced closer together by their cooperative lie. There is a side story of an aging bunny that is jealous of Maureens relationship with Nick and in a feud with the clubs manager whom fires her. After a visit to the Playboy mansion she returns with the power of hefner and sets yourself up as a matron or mother to the girls.
The show is not horrible but holds no interest. Thrillers work if there is an original story or at least an original angle on an old story, this has neither. If you have never seen a crime drama before then you will like it, if you have seen one before then this is like a high school play of Mad Men. If you expect Playboy bunnies to fill the screen, then this isn’t for you being set in the 60′s the bunnies are not as revealing as modern times.
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