If Lucan was as vapid and empty as the script implies, why devote a necessarily tawdry series to him? The first hour was same-old cruel aristocrat misogyny. The second part was much better, except for the twenty-fifth hour revelation that the Countess lost custody of her children. And there lay the only source of real drama: could a loser have been devoted to his children but so morally bankrupt he couldn't show-and the viewer of "Lucan" therefore never see- this repulsive story as a tragedy?
