NBC’s ‘Playboy Club’ — Where the Bunnies Try Not to Be Fluffy (Review)

The show could be a little less “Mad Men” and a little more “Dukes of Hazzard”

Like the empire that inspired it, NBC's "The Playboy Club" is built on goofy ideas about how grown-ups act, disguised in a veneer of sophistication. It could use a little less seriousness and bit more camp.

Because for all the swinging '60s decor, Chicago-stereotype boxes checked (Mobsters! Politics! Music!) and — oh right — beautiful women in bunny suits, the show isn't much fun. At least not in its pilot, which packs more into 42 minutes than those bunnies pack into their — nevermind. Too easy.

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It could get a lot better when it gets past its first-episode jitters, as well as any worries about offending early objectors like Gloria

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