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SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Series finale: Jo is still in hospital; Escalante preps his race-day horses; Ace and Gus join the crowd for the epic showdown between the two stars of Santa Anita, Ace and Gus’ Pint of Plain and Walter’s Gettin’Up Morning. Eulogised the Wall Street Journal: “That’s it. Luck has run out. It […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Ace ices out Smythe, DiRossi and Cohen as partners in the racetrack deal, but Smythe has other ideas; unable to make weight, Leon loses his mount; Joey comes through for Rosie; a stable accident jeopardises Jo’s pregnancy. Said the Wall Street Journal of the penultimate episode: “Like its two star […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) “I was prepared for—nay, expecting—this week’s episode of Luck to crawl toward its conclusion,” Paste magazine said. “But then Michael Gambon—dear, sweet, gentle Michael Gambon—gave us the first truly astounding ‘holy shit‘ moment of the series.” Observed New York magazine: “Episode seven of Luck at first feels like a placeholder, until you look back over […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) As Ace pitches his deal to buy a piece of the racetrack, Israel visits Smythe, DiRossi and Cohen onboard Smythe’s yacht, where he’s offered a “second salary” as an informant; an earthquake spooks many of the horses at Santa Anita, but Escalante decides to go ahead and race Mon Gateau. […]

Deadwood creator David Milch’s horse racing drama Luck has been axed following the death of a third horse during filming. The HBO series is midway through its SoHo run, where episode six will air Monday night (Sky 10, 8.30). Deadline reports season two of Luck is in mid-production and it is unclear whether the already filmed […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) After learning that Pint of Plain, Gus’ Irish horse, has been tentatively scheduled to race the next day, Ace forces Escalante to swap out Leon for a more experienced jockey, to Joey’s chagrin; Marcus fears for his health and wonders why he’s so attached to Jerry, while Kagle, who’s been […]

Scheduling logistics stop season two of Game of Thrones airing earlier than April 16 on SoHo, Sky TV says. In an earlier post, I questioned why Sky was previewing the premiere on iSky two weeks ahead of its double-episode launch on SoHo (channel 10). “The Game of Thrones launch date was decided so that the […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Ace enlists Nathan Israel, a cocky, young whiz kid, in his plans; Walter (Nick Nolte, above) decides to enter his colt, Gettinʼup Morning, in his first race. Episode three was the first to be written by track journalist Bill Barich (Laughing in the Hills), and as a result, tips […]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Ace shows off his famous temper, Renzo sets his sights on claiming one of Escalante’s mystery horses and Lonnie parties with two unscrupulous women. “Luck in some ways seems to me like an interesting flip side of Deadwood,” reckons The AV Club’s Kevin Dunn. “My theory of the HBO holy trinity has always been […]

It’s fitting that TV3’s new 9.30pm Monday award-winner, Homeland, should have premiered only an hour after SoHo’s HBO horse racing drama, Luck. The race between HBO and the cable channel that commissioned Homeland, Showtime, has never been tighter. For years HBO has dominated US TV drama production with its stable of iconic award-winners, ranging from The […]