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  • UPN
  • Jan 11, 2006
  • UPN
  • Jan 11, 2006
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...

  • UPN
  • Jan 11, 2006
  • UPN
  • Jan 11, 2006
South Beach
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 11, 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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Episode 0
Unaired Pilot
Episode 1 • Jan 11, 2006
I Always Tell the Truth Even When I Lie
Leaving their troubles in Brooklyn behind, Matt and Vincent head to Miami for adventure, hoping to find Matt's old flame.
Episode 2 • Jan 11, 2006
I'm Not Your Baby
Vincent begins working for a shady businessman; Matt investigates a robbery.
Episode 3 • Jan 18, 2006
I Want What's Coming to Me
Elizabeth turns to Fuentes for assistance when a dirty cop tries to intimidate her into paying protection money.
Episode 4 • Jan 25, 2006 • 41 m
Every Day Above Ground Is a Good Day
Matt's father, Charlie (Michael Paré), tracks him down to apologize for gambling away his college money, but Vincent suspects Charlie is up to no good when trouble from New York comes calling.
Episode 5 • Feb 1, 2006
Who Do You Trust
Elizabeth considers mixing business with pleasure with an old flame (Michael Nouri); Arielle and Brianna compete for the last runway slot in Stella's Miami Fashion Week show.
Episode 6 • Feb 8, 2006
I'll Do What I Want to Do
While Elizabeth is busy hosting a wedding, Alex secretly plans a party for Fuentes at Nocturnal, but when a shooter makes an attempt on Fuentes' life, a showdown erupts between mother and son over control of the club.
Episode 7 • Feb 15, 2006
The S.B.
Alex uses aggressive tactics to protect Arielle when he becomes her manager; Matt learns that Maggie is a gifted singer, so he gives her CD to an established music producer (Ja Rule).
Episode 8 • Feb 22, 2006
It Looked Like Somebody's Nightmare
Fuentes' behaviour grows more erratic, so Vincent tries to go legit by scoring a job as a bartender at the Hotel Soleil through Matt.

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
29
11% Positive
2 Reviews
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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