The drama series explores the story of a working-class social climber who is beginning to take a different path by making his way to the glamorous façade of auction houses in New York. It is an ideal experience for this young man to use the smuggling skills that he learned as a soldier in Iraq at some point in history.
The drama behind such a lucrative setting is intriguing enough to get our attention. Too bad the writers don't trust themselves, forcing in ridiculous story lines about mobsters and post-traumatic stress. Now streaming on crackle.com
Christian Cooke's former soldier, Graham Connor, is ostensibly our guide into this rarefied world, but he's more of a smartass writer's concept of a character than a real person.
The Art of More may score for its novel setting-an auction house where unscrupulous dealers vie for priceless collections and deep-pocketed clients-are tarnished by the dramatic fraud the show perpetrates with its paper-thin characters.
Dennis Quaid is the most familiar face here; he seems to have fun playing a blustery Donald Trump-type, but there's enough of those on TV already, particularly the real one.
The characters aren't always as unique, subtle or well-drawn as the works they're dealing in, but it's a world most of us know only from the occasional headline on an outsized sale, and the four episodes I've seen left me wanting more of More.
