Dirt
FX | Release Date: January 2, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
8
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz
Season 1 Review: Slick and entertaining. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Frequently wickedly humorous, it can also be as flat-footed as the tabloid topics that it dramatizes. Like them, however, it's usually juicily watchable and addictive. Read full review
70
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: A wickedly entertaining show. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Dirt" 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. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: This is not to say that vapid and ruthless can't work on TV (think "Nip/Tuck"). But vapid and ruthless has to be redeemed by ridiculous and funny. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Dirt is like a tabloid: The glossy surface lures you in, but there isn't a lot more there. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Much of what's swept up in "Dirt," from gay action stars to sad sitcom actresses, seems more dusty than dirty. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: There is nothing in Dirt to look at or think about that we haven’t looked at and decided not to think about before. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSal Cinquemani
Season 1 Review: Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: It should be fun, and it isn't. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Cox is strangely wooden and bland. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It's a heavy soap opera that's so obsessed with the death of innocence, it forgets about the comic absurdities of decadence. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: It's a show where neither the world being created nor the characters populating it are remotely convincing - or interesting. Read full review
38
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The whole series just misses its mark -- despite that mark being one of the fattest, ripest targets imaginable. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Sanctimonious yet salacious, tawdry yet preachy, and dull as, well, dirt, this haltingly comic drama has as much trouble finding a workable tone as it does making a coherent point. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Although several characters are refugees from central casting, there is too much of an earnest streak running through "Dirt" to dismiss it as a breathless soap. Read full review
30
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Dirt is quick-moving but painfully solemn, somehow constituting a plodding romp. At their very best, the first three episodes play like bad Kubrick. Read full review
30
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Cox and the shallow “Dirt” scripts fail to bring this woman to life. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Instead of examining the moralizing titillation that fuels the gossip press, "Dirt" just follows its lead. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: A soapy, shallow look at how gossip is currency in Hollywood. Read full review
30
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: A mishmash that wastes an interesting cast... and the few intriguing ideas it has. Read full review
30
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, the first two hours of “Dirt” give no sense that anyone wants to make an entertaining satire out of all this. Read full review
25
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: A tediously insipid show that is perilously low on wit, intelligence or imagination. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: An embarrassing dud that's both trashy and self-pitying. Read full review
20
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: There's something distinctly disappointing about taking such sly, dark subject matter and making it so clunky and obvious. Read full review
10
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: It's the first outright catastrophe of FX's post-"The Shield" era. Read full review
10
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The show falls thuddingly flat, feeling tired, gratuitous in its dirty doings and a trifle narcissistic. Read full review
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