From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

If you watched the movie, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series won't surprise you. The story is exactly the same; criminal brothers who kidnap a family in order to cross the border into Mexico only to get trapped again in a nightclub with all kinds of strange characters. That the same story is told does not have to be a problem at all, because when Leonardi DiCaprio won cards during a game of poker for the great crossing with the Titanic, you already knew that this could never end well. Yet you kept looking and you were not disappointed. Let go of that whine of Celine Dion then. However, with the serial version of one of the biggest cult films from the 90s, they have not succeeded so well. It all starts with the cast. The Gecko Brothers are doing their best, but how on earth are they going to fill the shoes of their predecessors Tarantino and Clooney? Add to that the fact that the film also had room for the likes of Harvey Keitel, Salma “Jesus-what-you-are-a-joy-to-watch” Hayek and bad guy extraordinaire Danny Trejo and you fight actually already a losing battle. Not least because Fez (indeed, that 70's Show) has also been hired to play some drug lord. I can certainly see through characters, for example, when I think of Jay in Modern Family, I don't think for a moment of the saucy shoe salesman from Married With Children and Kelsey Grammer Frasier parked fine in Boss, but in From Dusk Till Dawn I always have at Fez : "Yo, where's Kelso?!". Cast technically only the cameo of Don Johnson is a party, but his role is so small that you really shouldn't call it a party, but more of a social gathering with friends and Hamka's. Another thing that really gets to me over time is that they've had to stretch the story so much to fill 10 episodes that it loses all of its speed. Well, I'm not the fastest myself (watching me come out of my nest in the morning is proof of that), but the pace in From Dusk Till Dawn really beats everything. Even Good Times Bad Times has more momentum.

Nice series but I doubt it was smart to cast Fez for a crime lord....