Okay, You Got Me: So I’m into Dirt
Okay, You Got Me: So I’m into Dirt by Roxanne McDonald
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I guess I was acting spoiled after losing “Nip/Tuck,” so I barely gave “Dirt” a chance, thinking it would never draw me in the same way. But after the third, fourth, or maybe it was the fifth episode, I found myself craving the next installment. |
Lucy is wicked–in every sense of the term…even the New England idiomatic sense. She is having an affair with the borderline scumbag Holt. They don’t even like each other. And Holt has relinquished the upper hand to the one who takes control in all parts of her life: when he calls to
stammer how he wants to suhseee her, she makes him state it definitively. After making him practically beg, she then says, “Not tonight. I have too much work to do.” [paraphrased]And while I was thinking how much like Vincent Gallo the actor who plays Holt McClaren (Josh Stewart) looked, the next week after I so insightfully mused that, Vincent Gallo showed up as the every nasty, ever slimy disgruntled ex-child star, Sammy Winter returned to get his fair share of magazine exposure—this time by holding the Dirt staff hostage and forcing them at gunpoint to do a whole cover spread of him with gun, of course.
And Lucy, sitting at her desk just hours after the debacle, looks down at the fresh-off-the-presses edition…and just smiles that greedy-this-is-gonna-sell-bigtime smile.
I am digging in with as much fascination for the tabloid topics and storyline as for the slick acting and smarmy characterization.
And I am not alone, evidently, for “Dirt” is for many the latest and greatest of “guilty pleasures.” Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin calls “Dirt” “delirious, dizzy, decadent, and altogether delicious….” Tom Shales of The Washington Post and Jonathan Storm of The Philadelphia Inquirer both add the adjective “wicked,” Storm calling the show often “wickedly humorous” and Shales agreeing with his assertion that “Dirt” is “wickedly entertaining….”
Even Doug Elfman, renowned critic at Chicago Sun-Times, though he says the show is not addicting (which is exactly what I said the first couple of episodes), does add that “Dirt” “holds loads of promise….” His instincts were right. “Dirt” is delivering…. It just took awhile.
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