Today, there are White Castles in markets including Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Detroit, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Louisville, Minneapolis, Nashville, St. Nobody had successfully done this before Anderson and Ingram, and their methods not only gave rise to the burger chains we know and love today, it also popularized the hamburger as an all-American food. They sold thin little onion-topped burgers that were smashed down on the griddle (which came to be known as "sliders") for five cents, and perfected the process that allowed them to keep opening new locations while maintaining a high-quality product. White Castle was founded in Wichita, Kansas, way back in 1921, by a cook named Walt Anderson and his friend, an insurance salesman named Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram. The show has the potential to become an export as beloved as shows like “Wallander” and “The Fall” - too smart for the mainstream and pleasing for those of us who consider ourselves above watching “Bones.9 Things You Didn't Know About White Castle (Slideshow) It doesn’t condescend to its audience with heavy foreshadowing. ![]() There are some inventive twists and well-placed comic moments. Aside from his skills with bleach and a Q-tip, there’s very little so far that compels one to root for this hero to succeed.īut that’s hardly a reason to dismiss the show entirely. Defined from the outset as a cheater, he comes across as pensive brat whose hot, supportive wife isn’t enough to keep him satisfied. Like a knock-off Jonathan Rhys Myers, he’s aloof and unapproachably handsome. What will make us tune in week after week on “Spotless” when Jean will presumably be cleaning his way out of trouble?īy the rules of American television, there has to be something likeable or at least admirable about our protagonist Jean. But the crucial question is, Where will the suspense lie? In “Breaking Bad” the fun was derived from watching this brilliant scientist outsmart his foes using his considerable skills. In just the first two episodes, the show’s creators - Ed McCardie and Corinne Marrinan of “Shameless” and “CSI” respectively - have presented some potentially compelling characters. Show' Revival Picks Up Where Original Left Off This won’t end well.Īlso Read: 'W/ Bob and David' Review: Netflix's 'Mr. ![]() He enlists Jean as his own personal murder Swiffer, there to clean up his villainous trail. He falls within the orbit of mob boss Nelson Clay, played by Brendan Coyle (better known as Bates, the source of the most boring plot lines on “Downton Abbey”). It’s only when his estranged brother comes back into town - carting with him a dead drug mule with a stomach full of saleable heroin - that Jean goes rogue. ![]() As an adult, Jean is still trying to scrub it away, running his own crime scene cleanup business for which he regularly gets elbow deep in enough blood and brain splatter to make the set designers of “Dexter” salivate. Haunted by a childhood trauma that appears in flashback to have taken place in post-apocalyptic Panem (but it was probably just somewhere in the French countryside), Jean and his brother Martin (played as an adult by Denis Ménochet) are involved in a gruesome crime. In “Spotless,” the first scripted drama series from Esquire, we find another hero who is forced to ply his craft at the service of the underworld, hoping to maintain the crumbling facade of his happy middle class life.īut that’s where the paths of Walter White and Jean Bastiere (André Grondin) diverge. ![]() Walter White of “Breaking Bad,” for example, was pressed into the service of meth-making once bills and a cancer diagnosis gave him few alternatives.
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