Watch Now
Where To Watch
| Buy on |
|
| Stream On |
|
Critic Reviews
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Slick and entertaining.
-
Delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious.
-
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.
-
A wickedly entertaining show.
-
"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.
-
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.
-
Dirt is like a tabloid: The glossy surface lures you in, but there isn't a lot more there.
-
Much of what's swept up in "Dirt," from gay action stars to sad sitcom actresses, seems more dusty than dirty.
-
There is nothing in Dirt to look at or think about that we haven’t looked at and decided not to think about before.
-
Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy.
-
It should be fun, and it isn't.
-
Cox is strangely wooden and bland.
-
It's a heavy soap opera that's so obsessed with the death of innocence, it forgets about the comic absurdities of decadence.
-
It's a show where neither the world being created nor the characters populating it are remotely convincing - or interesting.
-
The whole series just misses its mark -- despite that mark being one of the fattest, ripest targets imaginable.
-
Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]
-
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.
-
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.
-
Dirt is quick-moving but painfully solemn, somehow constituting a plodding romp. At their very best, the first three episodes play like bad Kubrick.
-
Cox and the shallow “Dirt” scripts fail to bring this woman to life.
-
Instead of examining the moralizing titillation that fuels the gossip press, "Dirt" just follows its lead.
-
A soapy, shallow look at how gossip is currency in Hollywood.
-
A mishmash that wastes an interesting cast... and the few intriguing ideas it has.
-
Unfortunately, the first two hours of “Dirt” give no sense that anyone wants to make an entertaining satire out of all this.
-
A tediously insipid show that is perilously low on wit, intelligence or imagination.
-
An embarrassing dud that's both trashy and self-pitying.
-
There's something distinctly disappointing about taking such sly, dark subject matter and making it so clunky and obvious.
-
It's the first outright catastrophe of FX's post-"The Shield" era.
-
The show falls thuddingly flat, feeling tired, gratuitous in its dirty doings and a trifle narcissistic.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 81 out of 111
-
Mixed: 6 out of 111
-
Negative: 24 out of 111
-
JasperFeb 22, 2008
-
LovingDirtDirtDec 20, 2007
-
MEGANNov 6, 2007