A very silly series in the style of The Sting which I still love to bits. Robert Vaughn makes it for me.
Rated as /5 on May 04 2007 by Conor O’Neill
Hustle is back with a bang by setting the opening episode of the new series in LA. The plot is the same as ever - find a “mark” and hustle him, have huge problems, solve them. The mark must always be a baddy so that our good chums don’t just look live thieving gangsters who would rip off your granny given half a chance.
The lead character from the previous three series, Mickey, is gone and I didn’t notice it to be honest. All the other characters are the same.
Plot this week was to sell the Hollywood sign to a dodgy millionaire played by someone I detested as a kid, Robert Wagner. The number of dire episodes of Hart to Hart I watched on TV cos we only had two channels still makes me squirm.But he was excellent in this. Nice to see him and Robert Vaughn in something together again after all these years but only one scene together? They were last on screen together 25 years ago in The Towering Inferno.
Lots of fun, lots of twists, all comes good in the end. Love it.
Thursdays, 9pm, BBC1, starting May 3rd 2007.
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