Unique story line, & great writing. Eddie Izzard acted & played the character extremely well. I was also surprised how handsome Eddie looked playing a "Butch" role.
FX ruined the series. They only came out with only 13 episodes, that ran for only 3 months, then waited almost a year to come out with 7 more. People forgotten about it by then or lost interest.
Kind of like what the BBC is currently doing killing the Dr. who series by axing some of the most popular doctors in recent times too soon, coming out with only a limited amount of episodes, then waiting almost year to air more. People won't give a crap about the show anymore. If they don't want us to watch anymore, just cancel it rather than phuck around & ruin it. The BBC did the same thing to the original series. Just about the time it was internationally very famous around the world, it seemed like the BBC went out of their way to ruin it & make it the worst show ever. Why take a sucess, & try to fix it by making it worse. If something works, it don't need to be fixed.
They did the same thing to the "Top Gear" series too. If Clarkson didn't punch the producer in the nose for not feeding them proper after a long hard day, I certainly would have for being jerks, & going out of their way to unpopularize the show by cutting more & more episodes, & making us wait a million years for new episodes.
Anywho, I just started watching The Riches again. I have long since forgotten many of the story lines, so can enjoy it again. Just finished episode 2. Wow that was a fun series. I don't remember much crossdressing in the show. The kid mostly just wore a girl's hair clip in his hair, & wore a pinkish or girl's shirt that could almost pass as a boy's shirt.
But is was a fun show to watch, thanks to the unique story, writing, acting, & Eddie. Just about to start watching episode 3. I had recorded the whole series on DVD at the 6-hour speed when it was new. Which is yucky 320p mpg at 6 hours playing time per DVD. Still a little better than standard 240p VHS, except for that nasty mpg pixelation during intricate & active scenes. Sort of like VCD/mpg quality.
It's all your fault. Now I'm probably gonna get stuck watching the whole series again because I just remembered how cool it was.