Dirt *Series Premiere* - "Pilot" - 1/02/07
 

"Pilot"


Most of the reviews I've read for this have been pretty bad, but I'll give it a shot.

I'll definitely give it a shot (as with everything else on FX), but I'm cautiously optimistic about this one.

I'm giving it a shot, but Coutney Cox hasn't impressed me much since "Misfits of Science".

I'm giving it a shot as well as I've passed on a lot of shows that ended up being big hits or shows I currently watch and enjoy and missed when they first came out. I'll give most stuff a shot.

It's an FX show, which means I'll give it a look.

I haven't yet decided if I should give this a shot, or give it a look.

I will record it ...... but I am not sure whether I will watch it.

Some early reviews say that all the characters are unlikeable which makes the show difficult to enjoy.

Just so we don't stop hearing Peter Gabriel's Digging in the Dirt since we haven't heard it enough already. ;)

Poor Rick Fox taking it up the rear by a gal w/ big boobs *shakes head*

I'm so pissed that FX bumped The Shield to premiere this horrible show. Dirt stinks and Courteney still can't act.

All I got was color bars (and still have them during the encore). Will have to catch this in a rerun.

the color bars were the good part of the show.

Wow, this show sucks. Maybe If I never saw The Shield, Rescue Me, and Nip/Tuck. None of the characters hooked me.

Courteney Cox peaked on Masters of the Universe :)

I'll concur with the sentiments expressed here. Pretty ho-hum. I doubt I'll be bothering with it again.

Yeah, not good

The photographer story is stupid.

Laura Allen looked great

Laura Allen looks so familiar to me...anyone know what else she was in?

This show was toooo over the top and tried tooooo hard to be tooooo cutting edge. I havent watched a series on FX before but was completely blown away with what they could show.

Hated this show, it actually turned my stomach.

IMDb is your friend.

You've probably seen her on 'The 4400'

I did Imdb her but there was no photo available and I didnt recognize any titles. I think I know her from a soap her something.

i actually enjoyed the hallucinations by the photographer.

Wonder how they roped David Fincher into this.

Doesn't this sort of casting usually happen because of personal relationships? Maybe he's in tight with Cox.

Are you sure you were looking at the correct Laura Allen?

Her page has a photo
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020751/

Could be, though I don't believe they've ever worked together. Maybe he couldn't get onto "Entourage" and settled for "Dirt." :)

As for the show itself, it's definitely a situation where I'll keep watching because there's nothing else on at the same time; nothing in the pilot has really grabbed my attention. I can see the photographer plotline becoming a major time-waster, as there are only so many times you can show someone hallucinating before it gets boring; also, his story isn't being helped by the "edgy" (read: very annoying) camerawork and editing.

But I'll definitely give it a few more shots, as most new shows try to find their footing in the first few episodes; plus, they have good subject material to build on, as I'm genuinely curious to see how a tabloid magazine is run. It would be nice if we get a balance between that and the staff's personal lives.

And hey, nice to see Stormy get some work outside of the porn business!

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose this as your first FX show?

I couldn't watch more than 20 minutes. Granted, it's not my type of show, so I can't be too harsh in saying it blowed, but then again, I can't get those 20 minutes back. That was horrible. Hope some other new shows are better.

From Studio Briefing:

TV Reviews: 'Dirt'
Former Friends star Courteney Cox is getting revenge of sorts at the tabloids that have hounded her and her friends. In the new FX series Dirt, debuting tonight (Tuesday), Cox stars as the editor of two gossip magazines, one of them titled Drrt, the other, Now. She and husband David Arquette are also executive producers of the new series. New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley described the show as "a labor of love about hate: vigilante filmmaking that allows Hollywood stars to fire back at the pestering paparazzi who stalk them." Nevertheless, she writes, "Dirt takes a very shallow look at the shallowness of show business." Tom Shales concludes in the Washington Post: "As an artfully smirking piece of work, Dirt is both nasty and tasty -- a very guilty pleasure perhaps best spoken of in dark alleys. Or watched through a keyhole." David Kronke in the Los Angeles Daily News also has a generally favorable reaction to the series. "Dirt," he writes, "is filthy, but I mean that in an almost good way. Dirt is obsessed with bad behavior and has no qualms about depicting it as luridly as you're likely to see on television." Chicago Sun-Times TV critic Doug Elfman has mixed feelings about the series, writing that the show "gets the ingredients right (the tone, acting and pacing are swell), but the dialogue doesn't make it addicting enough to watch, and the editing could be slicker more often." Edward P. Smith writes in the Denver Post: "An inside look at the sleazy world of tabloids turns out to be as ham-handed and crude as the world it intends to expose." And David Bianculli in the New York Daily News puts his finger on what he believes is wrong with the show when he writes, "There's no one, really, to root for or care about, as everyone jockeys for position to survive, thrive and devour."