SummaryThe drama takes a look at the bunnies who worked the infamous Playboy Club in Chicago, where entertainers, politicians, and the mob came to have a drink in the early 1960s.
SummaryThe drama takes a look at the bunnies who worked the infamous Playboy Club in Chicago, where entertainers, politicians, and the mob came to have a drink in the early 1960s.
A sharply drawn and riveting one from the evidence on hand, and bolstered by a skilled cast. This club should lure plenty of customers, television-viewing variety. They'll have good reason.
Some might say the show is overstuffed with stories, but I had no problem following the various strands, even if some were less interesting than others.
Given the emphasis on soapy doings and shiny exteriors, the serial threatens to short-change its most interesting attributes, glancingly commenting on issues pertaining to sociology and the sexual revolution (such as a Bunny marveling, "I make more money than my father") while lacking the latitude to truly probe them.
While options during the era were surely limited, the show's broad strokes don't do justice to the choices women were making, or their self-awareness while making them.