TV show review: The Knights of Prosperity
Formerly called “Let’s Rob …”, The Knights of Prosperity premieres on ABC Tuesday, October 17 at 9 p.m. Take my advice, plan to watch something else.
This is the kind of show that you watch and wonder how it ever got greenlighted. There are some shows that are probably worse (The Happy Hour), but at least I get what they were going for.
Knights is just a horrible mistake all the way around. I would love to meet the people they screened this for who gave them the positive feedback that allowed them the confidence to air this show. I’d love to ask what it was that they liked. I’d sooner give up TV forever than watch shows like American Idol or Two and Half Men, but I accept that there’s an audience for those shows out there and I can imagine who they might be. (Probably my mother.) I can’t fathom who the audience for Knights would be.
The show centers around a janitor named Eugene Gurkin played by Donal Logue (Grounded for Life), who I actually really like. He has always dreamed of opening up a bar and when a fellow janitor dies on the job he decides it’s time to act. Except he doesn’t have any money so he comes up with a plan, while watching a Cribs-style show on E!, to rob Mick Jagger’s apartment. Knowing he can’t do it alone, he recruits a band of losers to help and they call themselves the Knights of Prosperity.
That’s pretty much it. Imagine what it would look like if the biggest loser you knew of decided to try and pull off an Ocean’s Eleven style caper. That’s Knights. It’s not funny, just sad.
I give Knights a 2, only because I gotta believe someone could come up with something worse so I wanna save 1s for those special occasions.
The Knights of Prosperity: Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC
