One Dollar fails with its $1 gimmick

The Hollywood Reporter

The gimmick of a dollar changing ends of confusing viewers of the CBS All Access drama, says Tim Goodman. "Clarity is not a strong suit of One Dollar and, unfortunately, that ambiguity is played off as a creatively mysterious gambit that fuels the series when in reality it just makes things murky and uninteresting," he says. "Blame the dollar bill. But whatever the construction series creator and writer Jason Mosberg was going for here remains not only vague but annoyingly suspect, as if the concept of the dollar floating around town and into various characters' hands was enough to keep viewers interested in a large, ambling mystery without a ton of forward momentum." ALSO: One Dollar has a lot in common with The Wire Season 2.