XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

TheMightyHodgeheg I loved this show and I am so gutted that it didn't get to finish that series, let alone get a whole other one!I found it totally gripping and I loved all of the characters. Minnie Driver was so funny and fierce, I thought she was incredible, she usually plays such wholesome characters and this was a far cry from her usual style. Eddie Izzard does well in it too, it is good to see him play someone so suave and less of a clown and actually Minnie out does him when it comes to the comic parts! I also loved their son Cael, played by the superbly talented and rather gorgeous Noel Fisher. I felt that the show had a good pace and was not only dramatic but hilarious and it was just getting exciting when it was sadly cut short because of the writers strike. I am still hoping for it to be picked up again but I am guessing everyone will have aged too much by now for it to have started from where it left off! Such a shame. Is it realistic? Not particularly, but it's wildly entertaining and satisfying to watch and keeps you hanging on for more. I thought it was a great concept and really creative, especially for an American show (must be all the British influence!)A couple of points that were mentioned in other reviews. First of all the accents. Well I don't know if you've heard many travellers speak of late (Irish or Romany) but they definitely have a rich, lilting and sometimes seemingly garbled way of talking (they use a lot of slang) so I felt that their accents were authentic enough. Also they are con artists who use a range of accents and personas to get what they want so it's perfectly realistic that there accents were adaptable and slipped in and out of their native and more regional accents as this is not uncommon.Secondly the cross dressing aspect of the little boy. Well one way that this quirk could be included is so that the boy can (and does) dress as both a boy and girl which could be used in a con or help them to further disguise themselves. Secondly, in case you hadn't noticed Eddie Izzard is a transvestite/cross dresser. He may well have wanted it to be included to educate people, to help to normalise it so it's not something that people are so afraid of. There is nothing wrong with trying to educate people and not every little part of a TV character needs to be scrutinised in order for it to work. Sometimes people cross dress. It is comfort to them or brings them pleasure and there is nothing wrong with it or further investigation needed.The person who said the boys wall drawings were pointless, well in case you didn't notice he was actually documenting everything that they had been through. It was partly therapeutic and just plain fun for him which is explains the why and in terms of plot development far from being pointless it was actually a form of evidence which could potentially be used against them if and when they get caught! It's actually quite clever this show, perhaps a bit much for some.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: FX; Genre: Drama; Content Rating: TV-14 (strong language); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 – 4); Seasons Reviewed: Series (2 seasons) The only way to push the "Start" button on "The Riches" requires creator Dmitry Lipkin to pull off and the audience to accept one of the craziest premises to grace TV. Move over "Tru Calling".In the Pilot everything has to happen exactly as it does, exactly when it does in order for the show to make any sense at all. Wayne (Eddie Izzard) and Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) are the head of a family of travelers. They steal from the traveler's camp and are pursued by another family of travelers, who run a car off the road and then flee the scene, leaving the Malloy's come to the car's aid, to find the passengers have died. The passengers are Doug and Cherien Rich – "buffers" - and they happen to be on their way to a house that they have bought on the internet filled with furniture that has been pre-moved, to take jobs they have not interviewed for in person, in an elite gated community. The Malloys move in and assume the identity of the Riches. Soon Wayne/Doug is pretending to be a lawyer and Dahlia/Cherien is trying to get her kids into a private school. If the American dream is a big house, lots of things, reputable jobs and high social standing in the community, the Malloys have walked in and stolen it.After years of outrageous worst case scenario shows, "The Riches" is an FX drama that shows some welcome restraint. An admirable change from the nonsense that has overtaken "Nip/Tuck" and threatens "Rescue Me". The possibilities are almost endless here. Fish out of water comedy. Class warfare satire. The Malloy's in a feverish cat-and-mouse chase to stay one step in front of the con. Side-cons on the rich suckers of the community. Maybe a little "Six Feet Under" disconnected family drama. All the family members have differing takes on the con with Wayne spearheading it with gusto relishing his role as a smooth-talking lawyer, Dahlia and her son (Noel Fisher) ambivalent and increasingly tormented by it, while their daughter (Shannon Woodward) is finding her place in the school and their younger son (Aidan Mitchell) experiments with cross-dressing, a character quirk that the family is unconcerned about.Lipkin sets the stage for a juicy, thick new dramatic playground. But very quickly he starts to close it up. He only scratches the surface of this delicious premise in the following episodes with any potential fun cut short quickly when Dale (Todd Stashwick) a fellow traveler and royal redneck stumbles on the Malloys and threatens to expose them. "Riches" tugs itself in several directions and never fully getting anywhere. At times it veers toward quirky dark comedy, thanks to Gregg Henry as Doug's live-wire, gun-totting, half-insane boss at the law firm Hugh. Then at times it swings into straight crime drama as Wayne, Dale and Doug Riches' friend shows up with grim results. The show neither has fun with itself as a dark comedy nor raises the threat level enough as a compelling drama. When your big shocking season ending cliffhanger is yelping puppy Ayra Gross spinning around in a chair and "demanding" to see his best friend you might want to ratchet up the stakes just a bit – or leave it alone. Pick a side and commit.Izzard and Driver are quite good with what they've been given. Izzard chokes back his British accent but is commanding in the lead. Driver is superb, showing acting chops I had never seen in her. She was Emmy snubbed for the role. As a character serial drama, the show's chief problem may be that Lipkim, even after 2 seasons, keeps us at arm's length from the Malloys.I wanted to love "The Riches" and I'm not quite sure why it doesn't catch fire. Freshman series kinks? Writers showing too much restraint in a show that could have pushed a little bit more toward the edge? A lack of a clear vision on where to take it? I can't help but think that someone like Alan Ball or the "Mad Men" crew could have wrought the proper amount of yearning, family dysfunction and sly character bits out of this serial. What makes "The Riches" so tragic is not that it doesn't work, it's that it feels like a missed opportunity with such a unique and imaginative premise and game actors ready to follow it.* * ½ / 4

greyhound1991 well iam myself a Romany for people who don't know what that is? it aka for gypsy we don't prefer that word but....I'm a big fan of the show but reply back to what the other person said about how you would love to live this life you don't its not like the TV show what you see on the TV show isn't real what you see on TV is not the real gypsy life it's the so called traveller's life i would love for everyone that read's this to research the Romany life and ways just google it and you'll see it's not the same i would love for FX to give me a camera i will promise them the biggest rating's ever if they want the real Romany life story?

mburnsderry I really wanted to like it but unfortunately it's not very good. Poor script, badly acted, interesting for the first two episodes but deteriorated into run-of-the-mill cliché by episode three. There are so many things wrong here, I don't know where to start. it's just not in any way believable! Living in Ireland, I experience travelers almost every day and there's no way any of them could carry off the scenario in "The Riches"!Don't get your hopes up unless you're easily pleased. It's more for those who like Lost, Heroes, Desperate Housewives etc. If you're looking for another Sopranos like I am, then just keep on walking, there's nothing to see here!!!