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South Beach

Summary South Beach is centered on two best friends, Vince and Matt, who left their lives in Brooklyn behind and moved to the beautiful South Beach in hopes of finding a better future. Matt meets up with his fashion model ex-girlfriend Ariel, who has a new boyfriend Alex, the manager of the nightclub Nocturnal. Alex's mother Elizabeth owns Noctu...

  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • UPN
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • UPN

South Beach

Season 1 Premiere: 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
29
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Summary South Beach is centered on two best friends, Vince and Matt, who left their lives in Brooklyn behind and moved to the beautiful South Beach in hopes of finding a better future. Matt meets up with his fashion model ex-girlfriend Ariel, who has a new boyfriend Alex, the manager of the nightclub Nocturnal. Alex's mother Elizabeth owns Noctu...

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
29
11% Positive
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11% Mixed
2 Reviews
78% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
29
11% Positive
2 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
78% Negative
14 Reviews

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63
Unlike "Baywatch," it's not as bad as it sounds -- or as good -- depending on your opinion of beach dramas built largely around boobs and biceps.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
58
It's The O.C. meets Miami Vice, the MTV Video Music Awards, and Models Inc., plus just a dash of Hamlet for flow. [13 Jan 2006, p.71]
By Whitney Pastorek FULL REVIEW
30
It marks a return to the 80's era of "Dallas," "Dynasty" and "Knots Landing," when the prime-time landscape was dotted with lurid, silly soap operas that provided the kind of catty catharsis that regular shows neglect.
By Alessandra Stanley FULL REVIEW
20
Filled with terrible dialogue.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
20
[A] warmed-over hip-hop saga.
By Paul Brownfield FULL REVIEW
10
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.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
10
The dialogue and plot contrivances are banal, the acting is cartoon and the whole thing is more transparent than a see-through bikini.
By Sid Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Paramount Network Television
  • Flame TV
  • Nuyorican Productions
  • 44 Blue Productions
  • Flame Television Production Ltd.
Initial Release Date: 2006
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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