Will Storage Wars: Texas be as Good as the Original?

I just saw the premiere of new Storage Wars spin off - Storage Wars Texas and I thought I would post this review. I didn't really have high hopes for it as I'm a fan of the original with characters Dave Hester, Darrell Sheets, Jerrod and Brandy, Barry, and of course, Dan the Auction Man, the best in the business!


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The new spinoff brings a whole new cast of characters:

Walt Cade - auctioneer

Moe "Fabulous" Prigoff - Texas version of Barry, a collector and gentleman
Lesa "Bring It" Lewis - Tough business owner
Jerry Simpson - works for Lesa at "Again and Again Resale" thrift store
Victor "Out-of-Towner" Rjesnjansky - from NY, suave, owns a consignment store and a revolving estate sale
Ricky Smith - Bubba's uncle, good ol' country boy gun slinger
Clinton "Bubba" Smith - Ricky's nephew, they work together running a successful warehouse.

The show started off the way you'd expect. They started off with the same intro music, similar graphics, and introduced the characters. Then they did their signature fly over of a storage locker lot and immediately cut to the auction action.

As far as the characters go they are less compelling than the original Storage Wars so far although perhaps the directors have something up their sleeve for the next few weeks. The auctioneer wasn't anything close to Dan Dotson with his lighting fast auction calling, but he does a good job. It's clear they tried to create a similar chemestry of characters like Moe who is like the Texas version of collector Barry Weiss, Lesa which is tough like Brandi Passante but she runs her own business. Then there's Ricky and Bubba which aren't very interesting to me and resemble Darrell Sheets and his son Brandon. Lastly, there is probably the most compelling character in my opinion, and that is Victor "Out-of-Towner" Rjesnjansky. He's originally from New York and moved to Texas. It's clear he's still suffering from culture shock and he says some entertaining things.

They need to make sure they bring new excitement with Storage Wars: Texas, otherwise it will not be popular. It's hard to judge this soon, but I think they need to introduce new characters to create new drama like Mark "Rico Suave" Balelo. This really made Storage Wars more interesting and added another layer to the characters.


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