Dirt

Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz

Slick and entertaining.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

Delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan 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.

Washington PostTom Shales

A wickedly entertaining show.

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug 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.

New York PostLinda 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.

New York MagazineJohn 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.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Dirt is like a tabloid: The glossy surface lures you in, but there isn't a lot more there.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

Much of what's swept up in "Dirt," from gay action stars to sad sitcom actresses, seems more dusty than dirty.

Slant MagazineSal Cinquemani

Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy.

Slant MagazineSal Cinquemani

Dirt's not just dirty, it's messy.

Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn

It should be fun, and it isn't.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

It's a heavy soap opera that's so obsessed with the death of innocence, it forgets about the comic absurdities of decadence.

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

Cox is strangely wooden and bland.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

It's a show where neither the world being created nor the characters populating it are remotely convincing - or interesting.

People WeeklyTom Gliatto

Cox... doesn't have the right vulgar relish to hold the show together. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

The whole series just misses its mark -- despite that mark being one of the fattest, ripest targets imaginable.

USA TodayRobert 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.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

A soapy, shallow look at how gossip is currency in Hollywood.

San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum

A mishmash that wastes an interesting cast... and the few intriguing ideas it has.

Hollywood ReporterBarry 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.

SlateTroy 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.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Cox and the shallow “Dirt” scripts fail to bring this woman to life.

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

Instead of examining the moralizing titillation that fuels the gossip press, "Dirt" just follows its lead.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

Unfortunately, the first two hours of “Dirt” give no sense that anyone wants to make an entertaining satire out of all this.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

A tediously insipid show that is perilously low on wit, intelligence or imagination.

TV GuideMatt Roush

An embarrassing dud that's both trashy and self-pitying.

SalonHeather Havrilesky

There's something distinctly disappointing about taking such sly, dark subject matter and making it so clunky and obvious.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

It's the first outright catastrophe of FX's post-"The Shield" era.

VarietyBrian Lowry

The show falls thuddingly flat, feeling tired, gratuitous in its dirty doings and a trifle narcissistic.