Told in part via flashbacks depicting scenes of Julian’s childhood, the storyline largely follows the character as he returns to normal life after a lengthy wrongful prison incarceration for a murder he didn’t commit.

There has surely never been a more terrible remake.” Yikes!Īiring weekly through the end of October, the new series sees Jon Bernthal of “The Walking Dead” and “Daredevil” fame stepping into the designer shoes of high-priced male escort Julian Kaye, a role made famous by Richard Gere four decades prior. As Ann Manov of The UnHerd reported, “A hodge-podge of sequel, prequel and remake, the show seems so singularly hellbent on destroying its source material that one wonders: why on Earth was it made? Schrader is apparently wondering, too: though credited as a ‘corporate consultant’ on the final product (his salary was $50,000), he has called the show a ‘terrible idea’ and vowed not to watch it. Audiences, not so much! Case in point? “American Gigolo,” the new Showtime series based upon the 1980 movie of the same name, which debuted earlier this month to a less-than-welcome reception from critics, viewers and even the writer/director of the original film, Paul Schrader.

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