Luck

Hbo's new series debuted last weekend. To gain interest they also have made the second episode available right away on demand.

After watching the first two episodes one thing I know is that horse racing is much more complicated than I knew.

With two episodes in the books we do not know much about the show. We do know that the show has an incredibly strong cast and a story that is not going to be easy to follow.

I plan to watch this series but hope that I can figure out some of the relationships. Each of the characters have a back story which we are learning slowly. In some cases we do not know yet.

The acting in this show is first rate. The cast is as strong as you will find. Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Jason Gedrick and Richard Kind are very strong. Farina and Kind especially so. The heart of the show however is Dustin Hoffman as Ace Bernstein and Nick Nolte as Walter Smith. Nolte has become a fixture of jokes on the late night shows but make no mistake...Nolte can act and this part looks like it fits him like a second skin.

This with patience should prove to be an excellent show.