Thanks for making the space in your broadsheet to allow Brian Wolly to present his considered review of "Tilt." As a Jumbo (A '88), I don't feel like my work is complete until it's been written about in the Daily. I am disappointed that Mr. Wolly did not spark to the show and hope that he might watch through to the end of the series before passing final judgment.
Interestingly, he points to an example of my earlier work, "Rounders," as genius - yet upon its initial release, it received a heaping share of critical disdain for its seamy depiction of unrealistic poker play. Of course, now the revisionists have seen that the film was merely depicting the truth in a new and uncomfortable way. I believe the same is true of "Tilt." Still, only time will decide its true worth, and this is not why I am putting quill to paper this morning.
I have no truck with a bad write-up (even in my favorite student paper). I do, however, have a problem with inaccuracy. In his piece, Mr. Wolly chastises "Tilt" because we 'have no character like Daniel Negreanu' in the show. Perhaps Mr. Wolly did not watch very closely. In the first episode of our show we did have a Daniel Negreanu type character - the ACTUAL Daniel Negreanu, in a two scene cameo appearance. This may be a creative lacuna on my part, but I do not know how to be more Negreanu than Negreanu. Perhaps Mr. Wolly can solve this one for me.
Brian Koppelman
Co-creator, writer/director of "Tilt" and screenwriter of "Rounders"
