South Beach: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

UPN | Season Premiere Date: January 11, 2006

Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Lee Thompson Young, Vanessa Williams

Summary: UPN's latest stab at a prime-time soap (executive-produced by Jennifer Lopez) is set in South Florida's world of models, pools, beaches, drugs and nightclubs, with some gangsters thrown in for good measure.

Genre(s): Drama

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E8. It Looked LIke Somebody's Nightmare
Air Date: February 22, 2006
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S1:E7. The S.B.
Air Date: February 15, 2006
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S1:E6. I'll Do What I Wanna Do
Air Date: February 8, 2006

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Doug Elfman

"South Beach" isn't the terrible waste of viewing time a cynic might expect. But it is a conventionally drawn, sudsy soap. Read full review

Robert Abele

Serious about its silliness, this show grasps the concept of prime time as vacation time. Read full review

David Hinckley

This latest attempt at a series with glamorous young people frolicking at an even more glamorous resort doesn't demonstrate significantly more depth than its unsuccessful predecessors. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

"South Beach" could fall into guilty pleasure territory, but it really is as corny as it sounds. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Maybe the best way to explain UPN's new drama South Beach is to tell you that when Vanessa Williams warns a young model that ''South Beach will eat you alive,'' I fully expected the next scene to be a horde of zombie parking attendants chewing the entrails of half-naked girls in the lobby of the Delano. Cannibalism is about the only thing missing from this delirious new trashfest of hard bodies and soft brains. Read full review

Tim Goodman

It's pointless to talk about who "stars" in this bloated music video, but the agents for both Vanessa Williams and Giancarlo Esposito need to be fired, summarily. Read full review

Tom Shales

A preposterous and pretentious drama series.... Fortunately, there is a way out: your channel-changing remote, wondrous transport to that blessed refuge known as Anywhere Else. Read full review

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QHEAD

Jan 18, 2006

This show is very intriguing i am a bit baist though partially beacuse i attend school on the beach but i love this show