Anyone catch new series tonight 'Las Vegas' on NBC?

[SuffragetteSal]

http://www.nbc.com/Las_Vegas/about/

I thought it was fantastic. Stars James Caan and Josh Duhamel.

[eileen from OH]

1. I liked it a lot too. . .

Of course I don't know how much is due to really getting a kick out of visiting Vegas, really liking James Caan, or what! But it was great fun.

eileen from OH

[Enraged_Ape]

2. Didn't really care for it

I'm a lifelong Jimmy Caan fan, so I was kind of disappointed.

Molly Sims has almost nothing to do except look beautiful (which she does very well, admittedly, but she's gonna need more to do in this show than that).

The show is so full of editing stylistics that the plotlines are sort of hard to follow, which is amazing given that almost every line of dialogue from a character's mouth is expository to an almost laughable extent.

Woman: "You know, you really should have spent more time with your family. You just left them in the lurch."

Man: "Yes, but since Mom died and Dad and I haven't really been talking over the last several years because of his alcoholism, you know it's hard for me to do that."

--that kind of thing.

Can't imagine this will survive against CSI: Miami and Monday Night Football, but who knows.

[amazona]

3. no i would probably find too many howlers

As someone who actually worked for many years evading "the eye" in Vegas and elsewhere, I have too much first hand experience with how ineffective surveillance really is. A rent-a-cop by any other name...seriously, it never ceases to amaze me how poorly trained surveillance is. People who go into this business are not the best and the brightest, not by a long shot, but sometimes they are downright pathetic. Actually, not all of them are total idiots, but many if not most of them rely on a huge expensive program to catch people who are working only with their brains, and even then they don't catch on right away. I guess I should be glad, as their ineptitude paid off my taxes, my debts, and my house, making it possible for me to cruise by on my current income in the high four figures. :-) Since they have such a struggle catching card counters, which they should have known how to do since the information was published in 1960, it is very fortunate for them that most cheats are completely pathetic. But I guess it's logical; why would a smart person cheat when a legal means (card counting) remains available to separate the casinos from the cash.

What chased me out of the casinos was the lack of OSHA requirements for all the noise. If they want to be really authentic, they should show how all the dealers and pit critters start suffering from hearing loss after awhile. You don't get that back. Yeah, show someone coming down from the sky trying to be subtle, and the pit boss (who thinks he is whispering) is yelling loud enough for everyone to hear, "Should we 86 her at the cage?" or something of that nature. Hey, I'm not quite deaf yet, if you don't want me to know you're talking about me, try lowering your voice. Oh, that's right -- you think you already did. I'm waiting for the class action suit against the industry in a couple decades when everybody involved in working on the floor is as stone deaf as Pete Townsend.

THe biometric programs are hilariously inaccurate as well but that is a story for another day.

[MaineDem]

4. I found it entertaining

Not too deep but ok.

Seemed funny having Sonny Corleone guarding the casino, though. :)