I'm not finished looking back at 2006 yet but I already want to declare the new FX series Dirt, which premieres tonight, the worst show of 2007. This is the kind of disaster only a network normally associated with quality could produce.
It's not worth discussing the details of the show other than to say it has some of the worst writing, acting and filmmaking you can currently find in scripted television. What's notable is where you find it. If Dirt was airing on Lifetime it wouldn't be much cause for concern. But coming from FX—home to The Shield, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and scores of noble misfires—this is pretty shocking. It goes beyond HBO's recent atrocity, Lucky Louie, which at least had a decent concept despite its horrendous execution.
After just a few minutes of Dirt's pilot episode it's obvious that the show never should've made it to air in its current form. It demands reshoots, rewriting, recasting. Courteney Cox Arquette, who is both executive producer and series lead, gives a performance so wooden and inept it's just embarrassing. But there's really no one to blame except the FX executives who ushered this on the air.
They could've said no. Luckily viewers can correct that mistake.
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