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It doesn’t officially premiere until Jan. 29, but the pilot for ‘Luck,’ David Milch’s new drama, debuted Sunday on HBO, and if you caught it, I’m betting it made you want to go to the racetrack.
Twice in the course of ‘Luck’s’ first hour, we got heart-stopping glimpses of what it’s like to be inside a horse race; director Michael Mann gave us a jockey’s view of pounding hooves, straining muscles and dangerous maneuvers. How glorious those scenes were.
Who knows how Mann put his cameras in the center of the action, but his doing so was essential to ‘Luck’s’ success: We got to see the poetry that draws people to this often brutal world; we got to see why they can’t leave it, no matter how much time and money they’ve lost to it.
(Warning: I’ll be discussing details of the pilot in the first impressions below; jump out now if you don’t want to know what transpired in ‘Luck’s’ first hour.)
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