Snatch (TV Series)

"There is so much going on that it demands your full concentration. After two episodes, it’s still unclear where it’s all headed, but you’ll want to watch at least one more to find out." 

"The new series, based on Guy Ritchie’s 2000 movie, is a whole lot of fun, a stylish heist story with an irreverent sense of humor." 

"Judging from the first two episodes of the 10-hour season, the show is riddled with characterizations that are meant to be humorous but are just dumb or offensive." 

"To its credit, 'Snatch' the show is one of the better riffs on an original idea you’ll see on television, owing partly to its young and talented cast and partly to a few tweaks to the formula. But it’s still irritatingly derivative, when no derivation was really necessary." 

"It is endlessly, desperately in thrall to Guy Ritchie. And, since Guy Ritchie was desperately in thrall to Tarantino when he made 'Snatch', the whole thing comes off as spectacularly inauthentic; a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"