Chris isaak chicago

Like an auteur of heartbreak on his three albums, Chris Isaak creates a brooding 2 a. She done him wrong. On Friday night at the Riviera, Isaak initially sought to re-create that world, and then shot it down in flames with a giddy, punch-drunk performance that resembled a frat-house bacchanal. Numerous times the show came within inches of grinding to a standstill as Isaak traded good-natured insults with his excellent three-piece band, Silvertone, or engaged in some winding, joke-filled narrative.

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Last time in Chicago: 1 year ago. I have seen him … Read more Report as inappropriate. Show-business satire like that on "Sanders" is certainly in the program, everything from the nastiness of in-house record-label politics to the doofusness of boy-wonder video directors to the protocol of dealing with a gay movie executive.

But the satire is only an element of a show primarily about a charmed life that still has problems and the doings of the men and women around that life, especially the keyboardist. Rees is convincingly befogged, but the stories written for him are too determinedly antic. And instead of letting Isaak be as cunning and cruel as talk-show host Larry Sanders, the show makes him into Mary Richards, the sane banana in the bunch. With the prime-time mantra of "likability" informing most of this material, it lacks that edge of savagery, both in characters' behavior and writers' brutal honesty about the characters, that drove "Sanders" into the TV stratosphere.

And in the early going, the series fails to take advantage of Isaak's gift for humor. At a press session promoting this show, he was an out-and-out riot, surely one of the funniest non-comedians in show business. We've taken those scripts and written ourselves into them. That kind of quick wit -- and there's lots more of it -- is barely tapped into by the Isaak character. It may explain why Isaak the actor, who has had lots of acting experience, seems a touch stiff on camera. He's never really allowed to be his playful, deadpan self, and the result is a good good thing, but not, alas, a great, great thing.

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