LAST EDITED ON 06-15-04 AT 12:05 PM (EST)

>I noticed that the quality seemed sort of flat
>or something. I just chalked it up to the lighting
>in the place.

The lighting was bad in most of the scenes, I'm not sure what the deal was with that, maybe there some gaming laws or something against the use of camera spotlights. It did look very flat and "washed out" much of the time

>What did you think of the show?

To be honest, I'm thinking The Casino isn't going to be my thing. Compared to The Restaurant, give me The Restaurant any day (and I'm not even a huge Restaurant fan.) The Frat Pack storyline held no interest for me, nor did the obnoxious fiance -- I mean gambler (even the "she's a man" payoff was weak.) The most interesting thing was the staged drama with young punk Matt Dusk (who reminds me of Corey Feldman)

I just hope it gets better from here, because HDTV or not, I found myself switching to NBC's For Love Or Money about 20 minutes into Casino and recorded the rest of Casino to watch later... and that's never happened with me and a Burnett show before. But of course that just means that there's generally lots of fodder for the summary bonfire!

-SB