| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
Slick and entertaining. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious. |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
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. |
| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
A wickedly entertaining show. |
| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"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. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
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. |
| 50 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
There is nothing in Dirt to look at or think about that we haven’t looked at and decided not to think about before. |
| 50 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Dirt is like a tabloid: The glossy surface lures you in, but there isn't a lot more there. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Much of what's swept up in "Dirt," from gay action stars to sad sitcom actresses, seems more dusty than dirty. |
| 50 |
Slant Magazine Sal Cinquemani
Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy. |
| 50 |
Slant Magazine Sal Cinquemani
Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy. |
| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
It should be fun, and it isn't. |
| 40 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's a heavy soap opera that's so obsessed with the death of innocence, it forgets about the comic absurdities of decadence. |
| 40 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Cox is strangely wooden and bland. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
It's a show where neither the world being created nor the characters populating it are remotely convincing - or interesting. |
| 38 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35] |
| 38 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The whole series just misses its mark -- despite that mark being one of the fattest, ripest targets imaginable. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
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. |
| 30 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
A soapy, shallow look at how gossip is currency in Hollywood. |
| 30 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
A mishmash that wastes an interesting cast... and the few intriguing ideas it has. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
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. |
| 30 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Dirt is quick-moving but painfully solemn, somehow constituting a plodding romp. At their very best, the first three episodes play like bad Kubrick. |
| 30 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Cox and the shallow “Dirt” scripts fail to bring this woman to life. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Instead of examining the moralizing titillation that fuels the gossip press, "Dirt" just follows its lead. |
| 30 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
Unfortunately, the first two hours of “Dirt” give no sense that anyone wants to make an entertaining satire out of all this. |
| 25 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A tediously insipid show that is perilously low on wit, intelligence or imagination. |
| 20 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
An embarrassing dud that's both trashy and self-pitying. |
| 20 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
There's something distinctly disappointing about taking such sly, dark subject matter and making it so clunky and obvious. |
| 10 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
It's the first outright catastrophe of FX's post-"The Shield" era. |
| 10 |
Variety Brian Lowry
The show falls thuddingly flat, feeling tired, gratuitous in its dirty doings and a trifle narcissistic. |
