5/5 Getting the Bad Guys!
  by Thomas Randleman (Ohio)
HUSTLE is a delicious series featuring a company of cohorts who make it their business to "get the bad guys" by performing "Hustles" on them!

It becomes extremely fascinating to watch the tight knit collaborations of the gang go after people who have taken advantage of others. Their plans are elaborate and complex but always highly entertaining.

The series star's are each able to bring their particular expertise to the fold. A gorgeous girl, a clever orchestrator, a brilliant thinker, a young hotheaded newcomer and a wise mentor. Robert Vaughn of American Television and films is juxtaposed with the British cast.

The production values are first-rate and each episode features a different venue and setting for the fun and games. Sometimes the story is bittersweet and other times it is completely hilarious but one is never bored. Quick paced and underscored with great music, it was at the time, a cutting edge production. It still give enormous pleasure to watch.

Thomas Lee Randleman

5/5 THE GOOD GRIFTERS
  by T. L. Cockley
Back in the early 1960's, there was a television series called "The Rouges,' starring Charles Boyer, Gig Young, Robert Coote, and Gladys Cooper (does anyone remember them?). This gang of international thieves regularly bilked the rich and wanton and powerful out of some of their gain, ill-gotten or otherwise, with style and panache. HU$TLE recaptures all the charm of that earlier series with a new group of accomplished cons headed by the inimitable Robert Vaughn and the oh-so-smooth Adrian Lester. Over four seasons, this team of scammers takes advantage of the deserving greedy with some of the most elaborate stings and swindles you are ever likely to see. Smartly written, well acted, and cleverly constructed, HU$TLE is so refined that you won't see the hoax happen until well after it's over. So pop in a disc, settle back, and prepare to enjoy some of the best laid schemes ever devised come together with seamless skill and witty finesse. Then watch it again to see if you can spot how they pull it all off. Take my word for it: watching the bad guys getting a well-deserved come-uppance never looked so good. These Brits are so good, they make it look easy!

5/5 Highly entertaining and educational
  by Laura De Giorgio (Canada)
As I watched this series I have discovered a whole new world I didn't even know existed. I don't know if I marveled more at the ability of the writer who wrote the script for the series or the super talented actors who breathed life into that script.

The characters, while they may not possess super-human abilities, nevertheless have abilities and skills that make them practically supermen. They have brilliant minds and array of skills and abilities that would make them super successful in any area of life. They gave a whole new meaning to a word "mastermind". With each new episode, the characters, like chameleons, take on new personalities - they become whoever is most suitable for the game they play. They can think on their feet, speak with different accents, always seem to say the right thing to get them what they want, and for that they also possess an super knowledge of psychology and human nature. They have a wide range of skills from alarms to slapping professionally designed websites overnight to getting and working any props they can possibly need to play the game and bring it to desired conclusion. Each one seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge on any topic - or at least enough of it to bluff his way through any situation.

And of course, in spite of all the skills they have, we wouldn't love them so much if it weren't that they are indulging in con games not just for fun and profit, but also to teach really bad guys lessons. Their marks are well screened, people who have used and abused others and made money from others for a very long time, and if it happens that the mark has a change of heart and develops a conscience during the game, they let the mark go free. These are con artists with a conscience who never play games upon those who are open hearted, generous and who live honorable lives. And now and then, the con artists fall pray to other con artists, as they say "win some and lose some".

While each episode portrays one big con, within those big cons, sometimes they play short cons - cons that most average people may fall for, but even those average people only fall for those cons if they are governed by greed, by desire to get something for nothing. Among the other short cons they play precious dog in a bar routine, pigeon drop, jamaican switch, three card monte, and a number of others.

5/5 Hustle Seasons 1-4
  by S. Mcmanus
A Great TV Show, wish they had made more of them, they make the art of being a con man funny and interesting.

4/5 Great Show!
  by Televison-aholic
This is a really great series. Super classy and smart. Some of the cons seem similar after a while. Some story lines are dropped without development. But overall, this is a very clever,flamboyant, entertaining show.