# Any love for The Player?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 26, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828 "2015-10-26T23:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/1 "2015-10-26T23:04:30Z")
If you haven’t caught this show, it’s apparently like somebody decided to make a version of Burn Notice but out west and with a lot less humor.
Which sounds like I’m damning it with faint praise but actually it’s growing on me. The first episodes were uneven and the main character seemed like a brick with a face, but it’s seems to be developing better. The five episodes released are still free on Hulu if you care to watch them.
Very short version is that there’s a metaplot involved dangerous super-rich gamblers, the show is mostly an excuse plot. _Dave Danger has three days to rescue so-and-so, defeat the villains, and save the world!_ Also, the show may possibly be an attempt to bail out the entire North American stuntman’s union, if there is one. It falls very much into the action genre.
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### Author:  [@pachabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pachabel)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/2 "2015-10-26T23:35:26Z")
NBC just cut the number of episodes down to 9 from 13 so it probably won’t be around for long
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/3 "2015-10-27T00:05:11Z")
Figures. I was enjoying this show.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/4 "2015-10-27T04:25:41Z")
I loved the Tim Robbins movie.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/5 "2015-10-27T05:04:23Z")
We’ve been watching. We also thought it was a lot like “Burn Notice”. It’s not exactly what you watch to unwind after a stressful day, unless non-stop action with a side of paranoia is what lowers your blood pressure. It’s kinda fun. Better than “Minority a Report”, about the same as “Blind Spot”
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/6 "2015-10-27T06:30:03Z")
I tried watching one episode and found it kind of unpleasant, sorry.
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/7 "2015-10-27T10:28:56Z")
I watched the first two episodes and quit during the third. I didn’t hate it, but neither the premise nor the execution really inspired me to keep watching.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/8 "2015-10-27T16:57:57Z")
I’m watching it. Every time I see it in my TiVo list I think, “Am I really still watching that show?” I tend to put off watching the episode, but then after I do I think, “Ok, that was entertaining enough, I’ll keep watching.”
Gorgeous/smart/tough-chick characters usually annoy me, but for some reason I like Cassandra.
Also, it was fun to see a shirtless Nick Wechlser (from _Revenge_) again. 🙂
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828/9 "2015-10-30T03:23:50Z")
I started one ep but need to devote a weekend day to binge-watching on On Demand. I’ve loved Wesley Snipes deeply and abidingly so I have to give it a chance.