Is it played straight or a send-up?
I never saw the original series (I don't think it ever showed this side of the Atlantic) but I loved the first two Gary Cole movies and realised they were a send-up of the po-faced, whiter-than-white nature of the original.
Reading the reviews of this I can't decide whether it's faithful to the satirical nature of the previous two - can anyone tell me? I've just ordered it either way.