Lucky 7

For now, Lucky 7 is a grabber with strong potential for further viewer investment.

Lucky 7 might offer more to like than authentic texture of place, race, personality and workplace emotions.

In spite of the undercooked ideas, there’s reason to hope.

I found the characters forgettable, and the pilot as a whole--which mostly focuses on the characters' depressing, overwhelmed everyday lives pre-jackpot, along with flashforwards suggesting what a pain the money will turn out to be--weirdly stressful.

It would have been much more promising if creators David Zabel and Jason Richman had chosen subtlety, which they did not. Instead, we have the disparate and desperate characters that always seem to fuel this sort of show.

Ineptness reigns, starting with the jumpy, shaky, hideously annoying camerawork and the show's enough-already flashback structure, and carrying through to the tediousness of its characters and concept.

Suffice it to say that I predict Lucky 7 will be the season's first cancellation.