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The Critics Aren't Digging FX’s DIRT!!
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I am – Hercules!!
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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so there!
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If that. I just don't have the heart for another sleazy F/X series -- especially one with David Arquette playing any kind of role, in front of the camera or behind the scenes. Ecch.
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and leave its competition in the dust.
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The actual previews, not those teasers, just weren't impressive. It all looks trashy in a very bad way. If anything, this series will be remembered for introducing nearly everyone to a Peter Gabriel song.
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"Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine...I saw through the bullshit." - Mitch Hedberg
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future is muddy.
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You mean one that's like 14 years old? God, that's a depressing thought, which leads me to look for a stick I can shake and holler "You damn kids today!" ....... Whew.
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Payback for cancelling Thief
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But not many people are.
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"Dirt," will be her "Joey."
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I spent all of Talledega Nights thinking "Where have I seen that blonde before?"
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Though we're used to dirtier dirt here in the District.
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Two things -
Lucky was praised to the sky by critics but fell with a thud in the court of public opinion.
There was, originally, a somewhat similar critical response to Nip/Tuck, in the "no likeable characters, no one to identify with" vein.
I'm not say this'll be good, but I think its worth judging for yourself. -
Ok, thats out of the way..
You knew the show was in trouble when the promos for the show was nothing but Courtney Cox standing there trying to look sexy with that silly music playing in the background. It was almost as if the people at F/X were afraid to show the public anything from the show itself. I will still check it out only because I thought Nip/Tuck was going to be complete trash and it turned out to surprise me. -
The one good thing about DIRT airing: I never have to see the fucking promo ever again. VIC, wherefore art thou?
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. I was hoping Cox could cool my nuclear-hot hatred of "Friends," but I guess not. She's sucked horribly in pretty much everything except "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective," so I'm not surprised.
I'm with you 100% MaxCalifornia. Bring back THE SHIELD and never show that fucking promo ever again! -
Courtney Cox is rocking the michael jackson look, ha. I will watch tonight but if it really sux that bad I'll be out after the first episode. How long before Aniston guest stars?
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Critics are full of shit. Here are people who never have written or created anything commenting on the quality of someone elses work. And to top it off they go to media sponsored events and junketts are expected to give an unbiased opinion. Right, pull the other one it has bells.
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After the nauseating amount of promos, we were forced to endure.
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Out of the Weeds, Rescue Mes, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphias, and Dexters, it makes sense that one of these shows is not well received and a success. I know I'm extrapolating here, but you know what I mean.
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And I have an intense dislike of everyone associated with it. Why everyone fell over themselves for that bland show with the one of the most nebbishy casts in TV history is beyond me. The fact that they are all doing crap after the show's demise is no great surprise.
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which are mostly putting it at above average. sounds like someone (not necessarily singling anyone) is being rather selective in their reviews.
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that way i wont have to see about 25 promos for it every damn day. i swear, i've never seen so many fucking promos for one show...
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I'm burnt out on that promo, too and was going to pass but if they are going to give us the blessing of the sexy Pope, then I am all over this.
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They've been too consistent as far as quality for me to just dismiss this show, especially based on what "professional critics" think. I'll start taking my t.v. taste cues from them when I start getting all my world news from Ryan Seacrest.
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seriously, it's goddamn annoying.
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But then I rarely watch TV and when I do it's usually only Tivo'd AMC or SCI-FI. What sucks is that this girl can't get a decent show off the ground to save her life.
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I thought the premiere was fine. It might not have been the greatest opener ever, but definitely interesting enough to keep me tuned in to future installments. One critic said something about the point not being coherent. But I thought it was very successful in showing the complex love/hate relationship between Hollywood and the tabloids. That was the clear and quite coherent point. Then calling the premiere an embarrassment is quite an overstatement. It was hardly an embarrassment.
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It looked horrible. I did chuckle though at the beginning where David Arquette "pretended" to interrupt his wife getting gangbanged in the dressing room trailer. Based on reality I'm thinking.
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hahahahah
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seriously bad suckage.
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Jan 03, 2007 5:28:27 AM CST
Don the crazxy photog most compelling character of 2007
by evilwizardglick
Dirt wasn't bad at all. Ron the Schizophrenic paparazzi clearly stole the show. He has to get some kind of best new character award. I thought seeing the inside 'dirt" on actors/sports stars and the corporate politics threw the show above any other hollywood insider tv out there.
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Leslie Bibb in Talladega Nights. Carly Pope on Dirt. Chris Gorham on Ugly Betty. Now all we need is a Mary Cherry/Nicole Julian half hour "Popular" spinoff sitcom on FX and I'll be fucking happy.
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Now maybe I won't have to watch promos for it every 1.3 seconds on Fox and FX.
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"C'mon, we Masters of the Universe people have to have each other's back."
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I don't think I've ever been happier for a show finally starting. But not in anticipation for the show, so I can finally, FINALLY, stop, stop, stop, STOP(!) HEARING THAT DAMN PROMO!! My God. I've been seeing promos for this show since November of last year, and thank God it's finally started. FX seriously need to think about how they promote a show. It's one thing to advertise something. Put it out there, pique the public's interest. But to just pound people over the head over and over again. God daammnnnn!!!...
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i've never seen a more simplistic set of unlikable characters in a show lacking dimension or depth.
It's like Hollywood as seen through the eyes of bitter religious housewives who claim L.A. is little more than a den of hedonism.
The thing is, people want to think Hollywood is place where both tragedy and triumph occur. Dirt is so one note, focused on the sin and the moral ambiguity of the characters, that after one episode, you've already seen the bottom of the barrel these characters are willing to sink to.
It starts out so dark, it has nowhere to go but up, and how interesting of a concept is that? -
The promo machine is purely based on getting a huge rating number out there. For those who found them annoying, believe it or not you're heavy TV users and you're hypersensitive to it. You may think you're casual, but you're not. The marketing of these shows is designed to hit as many people as possible so they have to hit the people who are just channel flipping. It sucks for heavy FX watchers, but it's this method that pays off big for cable channels that live or die based on the strength of their one single show at a time. And it works. It brings in huge numbers because everyone knows about the show. Major networks basically have to pimp out shows for every night, so believe me they'd do the same if they were in the cable situation. (And these methods come from high up the food chains, so the same people at the top are making these strategic decisions on the cable vs. network advertising differences.)
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I heard on the radio this morning about an interview they had done with her and she was just a complete snatch. They were saying how she's a "private person" and how she doesnt care for the media much. Why is it that people who want to be actors/actress's dont seem to understand that part of that is interacting with those who will be supporting there careers ( the general public) by way of the media.
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I mean, this is her after Friends big chance?, her "Joey"? her "HBO's Comeback"? if so, then I'm joyful for this might be another "Must-See-TV star" career burial.
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that is all
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over the top in this opening episode, and it really took away from any other interesting thing they were trying to do. i might give it another chance, but it really was bad. courtney, by the way, very very hottt
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Fuck this show. I want F/X to bring back Lucky! I want to see season 6 of The Shield now! Hell I want to see season 6 and the final season right now! Is it showing in other places before here? Maybe Canada or England? I want to fly there if so. I pay the money to see for I want to see it now, extreamly. Rescue me also a treat, like ice cream for me. Thief was okay, didn't seem like it could go on much after last epsiode, unless they turned it into something like Leon (1994). Nip/Tuck make me want so depressed that I want to kill myself. Havent seen Sunny show, heard its good yet it hard for me to laugh so I skip it like a flu. Fuck Fuck Soup and The Danger Rangers!!!
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and it was cruel of FX to run the Shield teaser at the end. Especially since we won't be able to watch it until April at the earliest. And who really needs a fictionalized version of the celebrity cesspool scene when there's the real thing, and crap like The Insider to placate the appetites of legions of idiots who eat that kind of stuff up?
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wrestle. I might watch then. Love David Cox...er...Arquette.
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Fuck you FX!
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