ICE: SEASON 1

ICE: SEASON 1

As part of their inaugural season, AT&T's Audience Network picked up Ronald Bass and Robert Munic's Ice and used (director) Antoine Fuqua as the initial front man to draw viewers in. It seems that relationship with Fuqua only lasted for the first five or six episodes before he was kicked to the curb.

Ironically, the series doesn't pick up until the addition of Donald Sutherland to the cast - at about the fifth episode.

The series focuses on The Green family, diamond dealers who have prospered so far by steering clear of the riffraff in the business. That changes when crooked son Freddy Green (Jeremy Sisto) whacks one of those illegitimate dealers dragging the family business into the sordid underbelly of the industry.

It is up to Jake and Cam Green (Cam Gigandet and Ray Winstone) to keep the family above water and resist the evil cartels. That is the gist of the series, staying out of the fray. Sutherland comes in just as the series becomes redundant and slow and instantly props up the show as ruthless South African dealer Pieter Van De Bruin; he wears his demonic President Snow like a crown and adds his certain character style.

Suddenly Ice becomes a high action directionless drama, to a more compelling drama with a suitable amount of action.

"Ice: Season one" is released on DVD/VOD and gives everyone who got lost in a story that that nine different writers will conjure. Slow at the beginning, rock solid last three episodes. -- GEOFF BURTON

GEOFF BURTON

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