Down on their luck, two friends: Tommy Moran, a former sommelier and functional alcoholic and Dion Patras, fresh out of prison and in debt to the Polish Mob, decide to take on the New York restaurant world and its underbelly.
It has been developed for AMC by Clyde Phillips (Nurse Jackie, Dexter) from the Danish show Bankerot, and perhaps he will be able to make it all cohere into something less bumpy and predictable.
The show has all of the ingredients of a juicy culinary crime drama, but with multiple competing story lines and a weak turn by one of its stars, it's too soon to tell if they'll all come together.
In an age of "too much TV," series have to start stronger, hold up longer and leave a better aftertaste... Even if a few select ingredients may make you want to take another bite, each episode ends up a flavorless hodgepodge of expired scraps.
That they couldn't finesse the script a little more is a pity, but it wouldn't have saved a show that can't figure out whether its spirit animal is August Escoffier or Guy Fieri.
