Wow, an excellent cast and an original, gritty hardcore plot...kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Up there with Dexter and Breaking Bad. Very upset that it was canceled. Courtney Cox was great and her side-kick photographer is brilliant. The special effects and the way they present the story is unique and very well done. Great, great acting! Good job Courtney! Why on earth would something like this be taken off the air. One of the best shows I have seen in a long time. I was not going to watch it as the cover was pretty lame, but what lay inside the watch it now on Netflix was a treasure. They should bring something like this back or something similar to it. It uncovers the world we live in today and the lengths we will go to to expose people and their private lives.

Great subject, done by the wrong hands. The tabloid journalism is such an interesting subject to expose a lot of what the shiny Hollywood lives of contradictions, rather the human being in front of the shiny Hollywood. Selecting the character of the editor in chief who's materialistic to the bone, though deprived of real love, to be the lead was super. The character of the psychologically sick photographer who lives tortured by his conscience for all the crimes he did towards people in pain was so original, being the cornerstone of this show's beauty, or should I say theoretical beauty. Because according to what I watched this, as a whole, is so ugly work.Despite all the efforts that (Courteney Cox) did to make her character work, they were wasted by her faceless face. I don't know what is the real reason, but she got in here NO features to be used in acting. Is it too much botox ?, or is it too many plastic surgeries ? (Now this is something to be traced in the actual tabloid magazines !). Whatever the case may be I know that her face was too plastic to express emotions ! Then, the tragedy of (Josh Stewart) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! He can act as the same as I can speak Sanskrit ! OH MY GOD ?! How he was cast ? It is a mystery for the ages. This walking ghost of a guy couldn't be appropriate lead, someone to react to, or something to watch anyway. Actually any dead corpse could do the role better than him! And he was supposed to be something like a gone-wrong version of Brad Pitt?? The guy doesn't have the looks to be even Sho'nuff (from The Last Dragon). Sure Sho'nuff is more charismatic and talented ! In a word he looked exactly like "true" loser actor who's on "true" drugs; getting not sympathy from us, rather true TEDIUM and HATE ! So, as you see, I was watching a freak show of a show that deserves to be named (the plastic face & the sleepy zombie) !I know nothing about the allegation around the show as (dark comedy)?? It's maybe dark, but comedy?? Never. It wasn't that good to produce that mix. It wanted though, but didn't succeed. The scripts were little promising, because most of the time was devoted for showing, and many times showing off, the real dirt. I mean how many times the term "doing up the butt" was used ?? And in some episodes that was profuse and free (the right word is exploitative !). They didn't come up with fine ideas to turn this dirt, whatever it was, into hot drama, attractive issues, or smart moral choices. It was dirt for dirt. Well, disgusting dirt too. So, in a way, this show was sick of the disease it was warning of !Now, let me talk about what's dirtier than dirt itself : the directing ! The episodes got some of the worst directing I have seen in years. There is not one point of singularity. I couldn't respect any of this show's time. All the scenes looked the same. The colors of the image are one all along, despite the difference of the drama (if there was any!). Simply the artistic personality of it was too damn poor. There is a tasteless feel all over it. And the mark of bad direction isn't clearer when you have mostly bad acting. Except a few good matters, like the performance of (Ian Hart) as (Don), this show was filled up with repulsive events that were treated in repulsive way too; and that's the main problem which made watching (Dirt) one provocative experience just about every time. Sorrow is what I feel with its promising, so not achieved, material.

Well, I'm from Brazil and we don't have FX here so I've been downloading the episodes from mega-upload or using torrent. I watched the first 2 and I gotta say, I was expecting more.The pilot was really.. not interesting. I mean, by the end I wasn't connected with none of the characters and I wasn't sure who was a regular actor or who wasn't. But as most pilots aren't so good (Friends is an example), I gave it another chance. Episode 2 really had an upgrade, I got more interested with the characters and I started to notice some solid story lines.. so I'll keep watching and I hope that FX don't cancel it.About the acting.. Cox isn't IN the character yet, but I believe that she will get better. I mean, she is convinceble as the cold and calculating bitch that does have a heart somewhere, but if she wants to get nod for the first time at an Emmy or a Golden Globe, she need to improve. (And I gotta say that, the vibrator scene WAS in fact believable).Ian Hart is very talented and I'm very convinced by his performance. The supporting cast are.. regular. (Josh Stewart is the most convincing one).I would say that 'Dirt' have the qualities to done well, as much as get canceled.. they need to look out.. don't mess up and put as many attractive story lines as possible.. until now, I give it 7.0 for the second episode.. but for the Pilot.. 5.0.Apologyse for me English, Thanks for reading.

I wasn't planning on watching this show. Don't get me wrong, I like Courteney Cox, but it just didn't feel like my type of show, based on the previews. However, after coming down with the flu, I was left to a few sick days and I happened across the pilot. First the good, it drew me in. I was just flipping through and it caught me and made me want to watch. It was dark, it was edgy, it felt different from most other things on television. However, it also felt like either something was missing from the show or that I was the kid at the far end of the table left out of the joke. I liked the characters, quite a bit more than I probably should have, but something was not right with the story. I'm not sure whether it was the intentional choppiness to try and represent the story of the schizophrenic photographer, or the fact that it bounced back and forth too much between story lines.I don't think I'm going to give up on this show. But, for it to stick, it needs a little bit of re-working and making the show something more than simply edgy.