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As promised, here is a review of Dirt with Courtney Cox starring. Enjoy!
I'll be one hundred percent truthful about this show, I only started watching it because Josh Stewart is in it. Yes, he's married, yes he has a kid, but if he walked through my front door right now, you will not hear from me for the next twenty years. LOL. I'm so in love with him and his acting ability it isn't even funny. However, getting into this show, it wasn't just about him, though he was still a big part of it.
The show follows Courtney Cox as a big important news magazine editor for Drrt and Now magazine. She's basically your cookie cutter uber bossy bitch but we all know that Courtney does this with such flair, you always forgive her. She's commanding, demanding, knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She follows the stars and gives people what they want before they knew they wanted it.
Courtney's character, Lucy Spiller, is a no nonsense woman who only cares about where her next cover story is coming from. That's it, that's all. Fox tried to add in a little mystery element as to why her father killed himself, but that's such an after thought that they have to keep repeating it lest you forget. And of course, because of this, Lucy has such daddy issues (being the one who found him hanging in his office) that she can't form an attatchment to anyone for fear of them crossing her. What I liked about this show though, was that they didn't sugar coat anything. They cursed, though bleeped, they insulted, and they had sex. Lots and lots of it, but a running theme in the show is how Lucy can't have an orgasm with anyone but herself. Yeah, how's that for daddy issues?
Lucy is very attatched to her little brother who's bi and they have a close relationship, but she's still pretty guarded, even with him. But she does have one friend that she obviously cares about. Don Konkey, her schizophrenic photographer who had hallucinations of a dead girl, had sex with her, had an accelerated pregnancy and had kittens. Yeah, if he wasn't schizophrenic, I would have looked away too. But I really like his character. Played by Ian Hart, he just brings a level of cool weirdness that keeps you wanting more. I guess it's just being a weird kid myself, like minded people tend to stick around each other.
Basically he's the best at what he does. Lucy comes calling for a shot, he gets it. He'll duck in air vents, climb over walls, and even get trapped in a sex dungeon getting burned by cigarettes. This show has a lot of eye brow raising moments, but I promise, if you just stick with it, you'll be okay. Don is loyal and he really loves Lucy but he also keeps her sort of in check. She's a power queen who hates to have her power taken, but if Don feels like she's getting out of control he'll say something to her.
And yes that is Professor Quirrel from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I don't know if you all are Harry Potter fans, but I was watching the show and I'm like why does he look so familiar? It wasn't until the episode he had an accent that I realized that he was British and had in fact been on Harry Potter. Thanks IMDb for not making me feel like such an idiot. HA!
The show hinges on a cover an episode basis. Each week, Lucy was after a cover from a secret baby, to who's juicing, to who killed who, to floating heads in wine jars, to having sex with strippers, to family man being secretly gay, this show definitely brought it in the drama department.
So it begins with Holt McLaren played by Josh Stewart who's dating this really popular actress, he being an actor himself, but he's not in the spotlight. Paparazzi want him to move out of the way so they can take his girlfriends' picture. Which is messed up, it would piss anyone off, right? Angry, he goes to Lucy to give her dirt on Julia's friend and in return, he gets a little shout out so Hollywood would know that he's still relevant. And it works....until Julia's friend OD's on drugs.
So he feels guilty, he's not in his right mind, and he also finds out that his girlfriend, had sex with her costar, and Lucy has a copy of the sex tape. That's how Lucy controls people. She has tapes, photos, anything she needs to hold as leverage over people to make them do what she wants. So Holt totals his car, injurying Julia, and he feels guilty about it so he stays with her but he also truly loves her. However, from that point on, she's a druggie and has to go to rehab.
Somewhere in the course of this, Holt and Lucy get together and she finally gets an orgasm from a guy. The only reason I didn't like this was because it was a little fast. Holt felt responsible for Julia's friends' death, Keira, and he practically hates Lucy and Don yet right after he says he hates her, they're doing the horizontal tango. It just seemed a little rushed and fast and I just felt like they didn't work too hard for it. I think that if they did, they show could have survived a little longer.
I also liked how before every episode, Don recapped everything and even commented on how people might be mad about all the sex happening on the show. Considering what they showed, I was surprised this show even aired on Fox. I think that if they put the show on HBO or Showtime or something like that with no restrictions, the show would still be on today. They had a good format, good characters, and great storylines.
What I didn't like was how everyone kept saying what a raging bitch Lucy was but never really showed it. She was just a raging control freak who cared more about a cover story than her own life like when Julia finally came after her with a knife, Lucy called Don to get a shot of her before she passed out. And when she woke up in the hospital, her first word was cover. But as for being a bitch, she was one just not as big as they made it seem. She was just cold and callous and would stalk Holt because she couldn't stand that he was out and about with other girls, yet wouldn't give him the time of day. I hate people like that. Like, life is too freakin' short to be playing those kind of games.
At the end of the day, I was thoroughly in love with this show and I'm sad that there's only 20 episodes. I felt like they had a lot to work with but the world just wasn't ready for that type of show. Like I said, if it were on any other network it will still be on. But Josh's career has really taken off, much like on the show LOL, and there's no way in hell he'd come back to the same role. But I do hope he considers coming back to TV. He was on No Ordinary Family, I first fell in love with him there, but right now, I'll have to soothe my Josh craving with movies. Haha.
Seriously, go on Netflix or wherever you watch stuff, and take the time to watch this show. It is so good with such good storylines and drama. I promise if you just stick with it, you won't be disappointed. I know this review is short, but I mean, there's only 20 episodes, though a lot of stuff went down for 20 episodes, it's still not that much to go in depth on because really, only three characters are important which are the three I mentioned. And the way season 2 ends, I think they knew they were going off because the show just came full circle which I liked. I would have hated it if they ended on a huge cliff hanger and now I'm in the corner rocking back and forth because I wanted to find out what happened. So yeah, go see the show!
