A blonde woman in a red sequined gown, white fur stole and Wonder Women’s golden cuff bracelets catwalks out of a plantation-style mansion choked in flames and closes the front door behind her in the evocative opening scene of Fox’s new church soap Filthy Rich. “Rot in hell,” she throws in for good measure, as she allows the edges of her lips to curl into a smile.
Even with Kim Cattrall’s over-the-shoulder vamping for the camera, the scene, directed by series creator Tate Taylor (The Help, The Girl on the Train), doesn’t last long enough.
It’s a vivid and promising moment laden with possibilities cut too short — and more importantly, the show seems to be all downhill from there.
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