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Published on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 - 3:28pm |
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The Critics Aren't 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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Reader Talkback
first 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 | 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 | 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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