Crítica de... "Dirt" (2006 - )

Ano novo, novas séries. Apesar de oficialmente ser do ano passado, a comédia "Dirt" estreou-se já em 2007. Criada por Matthew Carnahan, conta com Courteney Cox (aka Monica Geller em "Friends") no papel de uma editora de uma revista cor-de-rosa chamada Lucy Spiller. A crítica de Troy Patterson na Slate.com não é meiga para a nova série de Cox e, além de apresentar a intriga, fala naquilo que "Dirt" podia ser (mas não é).

With Friends Like These...
Courteney Cox's Dirt.
By Troy Patterson
Posted Friday, Dec. 29, 2006, at 5:26 PM ET

It's considered poor critical etiquette, for some sniveling reason, to linger on what the piece of entertainment under review might have been—to fault the fundamental approach—so I won't go on and on about how Courteney Cox's Dirt (FX, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET) stood a chance of being fun. The show, a fantasy about tabloid magazines, might have been a madcap riff on scandal and compromise, frothy with soap and frothing with bile, if developed by producers with the right sense of humor or, in fact, any discernible sense of humor at all. But Dirt is far too busy cultivating its dour heavyosity to bother with funny business, and we must push away the thought of pleasure and poke at the dish we're served, which is cold, bitter, and bloating, with a gritty aftertaste. Dirt is quick-moving but painfully solemn, somehow constituting a plodding romp. At their very best, the first three episodes play like bad Kubrick.

in Slate.com