What's the key to "The Playboy Club" success?
Yes, there were period costumes and music and references, and yes, a lot of the bare skin and sex that the title promises. But there was little in the way of lively dialogue or deep character development.
What there was a lot of, besides bunny tails and ears, was cheesey plot points like a fatal stiletto stabbing. (No joke!!)
It was a bad first night on the job for new bunny Amber Heard, the show's star. In addition to the accidental heel in the throat for the mob-boss in the backroom, she got reprimanded for putting down her cigarette tray to dance with a customer and for leaving with another customer before her shift ended.
That other customer was fellow star Eddie Cibrian, who witnessed the murder and kept the clueless bunny from calling the police. Instead, the two rolled the body in a rug and dumped it in the river. Luckily, politically ambitious Nick Dalton, played by Cibrian, took bunny Maureen (Heard) home where Mother Bunny Carol-Lynne, played by Laura Benanti, could find them.
You see where this is going, right? Dalton and Maureen are each other's alibi as the mob begins to hunt for the missing boss.
The key to success for this Playboy Club may lie in rewrites.
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