Product Description Take a closer look at the sensational and intriguing world of celebrity, fame, and power through the eyes of Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox), the woman Hollywood loves to hate but hates to cross. As editor-in-chief of Hollywood's most influential gossip rag, Spiller can make or break a celebrity, but her obsession with outing the darker side of the glamorous life unleashes the demons of her own past and makes her a victim of the machine she has created. It's "delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious," raves THE MIAMI HERALD. Dig deep with DIRT: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON. Experience every sumptuous episode, plus exciting bonus features you can't see anywhere else, in this four-disc box set. It's tempting television at its best. .com Hot-wired into the tabloid zeitgeist, Dirt is good, lurid fun. Courteney Cox, in a bold departure from Monica on Friends, stars as Lucy Spiller, editor of Dirt magazine. Relentless, high-strung Lucy is part Ben Bradlee and part Bonnie Fuller. She's a stickler for journalistic integrity with a basic instinct for the scandalous "get." "There's actual reporting in what we do," she rallies her reporters. "The only defense we have is the truth." Lucy is saddled with a clichéd personal life (abandonment issues, intimacy issues, blah, blah, blah). She is way more fun to watch at work when she's blackmailing celebs to deliver scoops by threatening to reveal their sexual peccadilloes, stun-gunning one-night-stands, or betraying a loved one to score an exclusive, career-wrecking cover story. Her go-to photographer and best friend is Don Konkey (Ian Hart, an uncanny John Lennon in Backbeat and The Hours and Times) a functioning schizophrenic prone to hallucinations, but who will do anything for Lucy, even sever his own finger to gain admittance to a hospital where an unblemished Christian pop star is being mysteriously kept under wraps. Konkey is the voice and heart of Dirt. His introductory episode recaps are a highlight ("No offense, but you should be up on this by now," he states in episode 7). Waiting in the wings on Lucy's staff is Willa (Alex Breckenridge), young, green, and hungry. She becomes a much more provocative presence as she joins the dark side as the season progresses.Dirt could use sharper writing, but it's savvy enough when it comes to parsing Hollywood-speak. A celebrity's so-called "exhaustion" is translated by Lucy to mean "rehab or a psychotic break." Dirt drops A-list names (Clooney, Britney), but for a series set in Hollywood, it's light on actual celebrities (director David Fincher and a self-deprecating Christopher Knight and Adrienne Curry appear as themselves). Instead, we get unconvincing fictional celebrities such as wash-out actor Holt McLaren (Josh Stewart), who gets his shot at superstardom by making the same kind of pact with Lucy that John Cassavetes made with the coven in Rosemary's Baby. Just one scoop begins a downward spiral for his sitcom-actress girlfriend (Laura Allen) and her best friend, an actress with an ill-timed pregnancy (Shannyn Sossamon). Also getting down and dirty are Rick Fox as a compromised basketball superstar, Wayne Brady as a cultured thug, and, in the season finale, Jennifer Aniston as Lucy's rival (and then some, although their much-hyped onscreen kiss is really much ado about nothing). An FX series, Dirt shovels on the network's envelope-pushing profane language and graphic sex scenes. It should clean up on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
S**.
Great, as per usual
Loved this show. It was ahead of its time.
D**L
Good series
Good series, good cast, about dark side of fame
R**S
First Rate Series
Dirt the first season is a very good DVD set. All four discs are first rate. The writing is creative and fresh; the acting is first rate, especially the character Don. While I have never much cared for the work of Courtney Cox, in this series she does her very best work as middle-aged Lucy and nails the part.I could nit pick some very unimportant points that could be improved upon as this is a cable series not a movie production, but over all this is one of the best series out there. This is definitely a dark topic for adult or mature audiences, but it is very well done from top to bottom.The action in this series and the actions of the actors are all fast paced and are all very believable as we get a view of the sordidly dark underbelly of the so-called progress and liberal Hollywood life styles of stars, reporters, and those that support their actions by buying these publications.
T**N
Loved it!
I was not sure what to think when I bought this season, but I had heard that it was good from a friend. Courtney Cox is fantastic as a character in charge of a half-dirty tabloid, half-entertainment news type of magazine. She is constantly battling with celebrities to get new "dirt" that no other magazine has, and is very good at playing the politics needed to make it in the business.There is plenty of sexual inuendo (and more) for those looking for that, and great relationships between characters that are constantly evolving. While the show uses very few celebrities, you will feel that the celeb characters are actually famous because the writing is that good.The final episode is incredible, though it will leave you hanging a bit. Overall, this is a definite buy recommendation!Have fun!
S**E
The show got better and better with each episode
okay so I watched the first episode and thought the showwas decent good enough for me to watch again well thenext week comes around and I watch again and it gets betterand I'm thinking that this is gonna be a new show for me to watchby episode 4 I had decided to buy the DVDs ASAP it was so goodwith Nip/Tuck being my fav show Dirt is really giving it a runwho knows after I see the new seasons for both shows I may havea new fav showCourteney Cox was brilliant in her roll as Lucy in every episodeshe shocked me more and more with what she did and said and thatwas a good thingDirt is a MUST WATCH!
R**E
Why would anyone want to watch this?
I was able to have a look at a couple of the first episodes of this show, the only reason being that the world depicted I thought would be interesting and I love C.Cox.Well I have found the show to be really uninteresting, sometimes boring, but most of all tasteless and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to watch this. I don't think I'm going to. It's full of backstabbing and intrigues and blackmail and it makes Dynasty seem like a fairytale.In the second episode a paparazzi is paid to take pictures of a corpse in a coffin on display. I thought in some way they would not print the picture in the show but it made the cover. Now, excuse me but there is nothing more tasteless and really, this show seems to be endorsing things like the national enquiror. Are we meant to feel sorry for them or something? This show leaves a very bad taste in my mouth, it was not nice to watch, and I have watched thousands of shows and movies fromthe most lurid and realistic to the funniest but this one is just WRONG. Oh, and it is not funny at all, at all.There is no redeeming feature in this show and I am struggling to think why some great shows are axed and this is going for a second season.
V**A
Dirt is the best!
Loved this TV Show!
A**Y
Binge worthy
Great show. It gets a little slow mid season but worth the watch.
A**R
Five Stars
New, as stated
W**Y
It wasn't for me
This show really wasn't for me, I just couldn't get into it at all. Disappointing but I'm always ready to try something new.
M**D
... actor and his character is quite complex he is fantastic in
the only thing worth watching in this is Ian Hart due to the fact that he is a superb actor and his character is quite complex he is fantastic in it
X**I
humorous series
although the humor is sometimes dark, but totally love the characters. especially the one with the dead girlfriend.worth viewing. would recommend to all my friends.
L**T
Very quick delivery
Came very quickly. Very happy!
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