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Digging FX’s DIRT!!

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It’s an FX hourlong, from writer Matthew Carnahan (“Fastlane”), about a Hollywood-based weekly tabloid editor. It stars Courtney Cox (“Friends”), Carly Pope (“Popular”), Will McComack (“Syriana”) and Ian Hart (“Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story”).

TV Guide give it a 2 (out of 10) and says:

… Dirt reminds us that few things are as depressing as dull smut. … an embarrassing dud that's both trashy and self-pitying. Unconvincing on any level of execution …

USA Today gives it a star and a half (out of four) and says:

… dull as, well, dirt, this haltingly comic drama has as much trouble finding a workable tone as it does making a coherent point. …

The New York Times says:

… in a part that cries out for flair and flared nostrils, Ms. Cox is strangely wooden and bland. “Dirt” provides a very literal, coloring-book interpretation of a tyrannical publishing diva: the wall art in Lucy’s office is a giant Renaissance-style painting of nude figures twisting under the fiery torments of hell. It’s not fair to compare anyone with Meryl Streep as the icy magazine editor in “The Devil Wears Prada.” But the Devil in “Dirt” wears red satin, horns and a tail. Ms. Cox’s performance is not the only speed bump, but the series gets better as it goes along, mostly thanks to Ian Hart as Don Konkey, a tabloid photographer and functioning schizophrenic who hears voices as he works. …

The Los Angeles Times says:

… instead of examining the moralizing titillation that fuels the gossip press, "Dirt" just follows its lead: The show takes basic-cable porn about as far as you can imagine, and there are drugs and deception and other displays of human weakness that we somehow account more awful and interesting when magnified by stardom. It does not help that executive producer Courteney Cox has miscast herself in a lead role that plays to none of her demonstrated strengths or sparkle. …

The Chicago Tribune says:

… The trouble with Spiller, however, is not that she’s ambitious, duplicitous and nearly amoral (as are many of cable television’s most magnetic characters). It’s that Cox and the shallow “Dirt” scripts fail to bring this woman to life. …

Variety says:

FX's enviable reputation with originals is stained by "Dirt" … the show falls thuddingly flat, feeling tired, gratuitous in its dirty doings and a trifle narcissistic ..

The Hollywood Reporter says:

… fashions a world that is dark and simplistic. … Hollywood is a nest of vipers. Actors, agents, producers, reporters -- even nannies to the stars -- they're all the same. Everyone is corrupt or corruptible, shallow, self-absorbed and, usually, addicted. That dismal set of characteristics extends to the main characters as well. …

10 p.m. Tuesday. FX.







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by jarodvhale
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:35:32 PM
Yeah, this one's gonna be a wait-for-DVD...
by Roguewriter
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:38:59 PM
I thought it would be gritty
by durhay
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:40:24 PM
Did anyone really think this was going to be good?
by NoPIX
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:40:51 PM
harsh shit, sounds terrible
by BadMrWonka
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:41:39 PM
critics rain on Dirt
by durhay
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:42:50 PM
NoPIX... introducing a Gabriel tune?
by Roguewriter
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:43:10 PM
Good
by chucks888
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:43:51 PM
Is anyone else sick and tired of that shitty promo song
by Irresolute
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:49:41 PM
I'm aware it's an old song of his....
by NoPIX
Jan 2nd, 2007
02:53:44 PM
COURTNEY COX GOTTA EAT
by Pound Sand
Jan 2nd, 2007
03:02:42 PM
Oooh, Carly Pope. I love me some Popular
by chrth
Jan 2nd, 2007
03:03:00 PM
Washington Post was little more kind.
by PwnedByStallone
Jan 2nd, 2007
03:07:13 PM
Dirt
by Onlooker
Jan 2nd, 2007
03:51:43 PM
Dirt Nap!
by Ironmuskrat
Jan 2nd, 2007
03:58:38 PM
Get this shit off the air and get THE SHIELD back on!
by MaxCalifornia.
Jan 2nd, 2007
04:04:29 PM
Agreed
by Cobbio
Jan 2nd, 2007
04:29:19 PM
in some of those promos
by artie langes nut
Jan 2nd, 2007
04:31:47 PM
Critics hatin DIRT a hit then.
by EvilWizardGlick
Jan 2nd, 2007
04:36:33 PM
I promised myself not to watch this shit...
by Billyeveryteen
Jan 2nd, 2007
04:36:39 PM
Well, I suppose it's about time...
by DanielKurland
Jan 2nd, 2007
05:39:07 PM
Hated Friends......
by Jimmy Jazz
Jan 2nd, 2007
06:40:21 PM
then look at imdb's reviews for dirt
by Holodigm
Jan 2nd, 2007
06:48:24 PM
good, get it off the air ASAP
by keyserSOZE
Jan 2nd, 2007
07:10:25 PM
Carly Pope? That's all you had to motherfucking say.
by Big Bad Clone
Jan 2nd, 2007
07:23:17 PM
I'll give any FX show a try.
by Optimus Murphy
Jan 2nd, 2007
08:15:01 PM
i'm going to shoot my tv if i hear that song again
by Bob C. Cock
Jan 2nd, 2007
08:17:32 PM
The Shield Ownz Your Ass Herc
by NoPIX
Jan 2nd, 2007
08:22:35 PM
Haven't seen any promo's
by ewokstew
Jan 2nd, 2007
08:39:46 PM
I thought the premiere was
by JacksParasites
Jan 2nd, 2007
11:08:03 PM
Watched the On Demand preview of this the other day
by wash
Jan 2nd, 2007
11:33:34 PM
Thunderplant
by wash
Jan 3rd, 2007
01:27:17 AM
wow did that ever suck.
by dr.bulber
Jan 3rd, 2007
02:04:26 AM
Don the crazxy photog most compelling character of 2007
by EvilWizardGlick
Jan 3rd, 2007
05:28:27 AM
The "Popular" kids making a comeback!
by Mr. Profit
Jan 3rd, 2007
07:30:54 AM
Thank God that thing has finally started
by Richard Cranium
Jan 3rd, 2007
08:40:12 AM
Will she help out her old friend Dolph?
by Big Bad Clone
Jan 3rd, 2007
09:54:43 AM
We can all agree the promos were OVERKILL...
by iron pills
Jan 3rd, 2007
09:54:50 AM
it really was awful
by Fearsme
Jan 3rd, 2007
10:57:44 AM
Promos
by J Skell
Jan 3rd, 2007
11:59:20 AM
Courtey Cox - Karmas a Bitch, and so is she...
by followthsbeat
Jan 3rd, 2007
12:11:05 PM
So this is Monica's sink-along oportunity?
by Enter4None
Jan 3rd, 2007
01:39:44 PM
The show may suck but Courtney can bob on my Cox
by Lando Griffin
Jan 3rd, 2007
01:47:44 PM
im thinking they went a little out of there way to be
by wcoop893
Jan 3rd, 2007
06:16:19 PM
All Cox and No Balls...
by BlueMeep
Jan 3rd, 2007
06:43:28 PM
I thought it was dull...
by The Selecter
Jan 4th, 2007
05:45:14 AM
Put her husband on it and have him...
by mrfan
Jan 5th, 2007
05:06:01 AM
Dirt's promos killed that Peter Gabriel song for me
by Neo Zeed
Jan 5th, 2007
06:16:59 PM

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