[...] megaproducer Mark Burnett hopes his Midas touch extends to the world of Las Vegas gaming with this quick-cut, time-lapse, super-slick look inside a casino through the eyes of a couple of mid-30s neophytes named Timothy Poster and Thomas Breitling. [...] Fox's "The Casino" is billed as the story of two young entrepreneurs who cashed in by selling their Internet startup Travelscape.com to Expedia and used some of that cash to purchase the long-dormant Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in downtown Vegas. [...] judging from the opening stanza, the unscripted docu-soap (please, let's get away from calling this stuff "reality," shall we?) is really more about dishing dirt, mining titillation and crafting soapy scenarios than it is truly pulling back the curtain on this world.

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