From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series -Premier Review (spoilers)
From Dusk Till Dawn is the story of two fascinating characters in the Gecko brothers, Seth and Ritchie. Both career criminals with a violent streak, Seth is cool and collected under fire and Ritchie has a bit of trouble telling reality from the visions he has. The series picks up much as the movie did where Ritchie has just broken Seth out of prison, then they have robbed a bank of 30 million (I don't remember what they had in the movie)... They have left a string of dead bodies behind them and now have the largest manhunt in Texas history coming after them. Their goal is to get across the Mexican border where they will be able to buy sanctuary in El Ray for 30% of their haul.
As best I understand, the entire season 1 is going to cover the events of the original movie... Plus. The plus is everything they are going to add in to give it more meat. Episode 1 mostly covers the events at Benny's World of Liquor. In the movie, this is about 15 minutes but here is gets stretched out to the entire episode. They do add in much more then what was in the movie... Flashbacks to the bank robbery, back story for the cops involved... oh, and a second cop on the scene. It also appears that the visions that trouble Ritchie are more then just in his mind but rather really being sent to him.... Or he's picking them up... Not sure where they are going with that yet.
I really thought the whole thing was well put together but it does stick a little to closely to the original materiel. The actors portraying Seth and Ritchie, I think, are doing a great job of making the characters their own... Keeping what they should be without trying to be George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino... EXCEPT... For two or three scenes where they are directed to exactly reproduce a classic line from the movie. A bad choice IMO as both DJ Cotrona and Zane Holtz seem to be more then capable of making the characters their own without using such a crutch. A mistake in writing and directing but I suspect it was done to have it in the trailers as a 'hook' to bring in viewers and will disappear as the series goes on... At least it better 
Bottom Line - I really enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to seeing where they take it... I'll at least be giving season 1 a watch.
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