TV Preview: 'Dirt' Season 2

Dirt
Season 2
Starring Courteney Cox Arquette, Ian Hart, Laura Allen, Josh Stewart
FX Network
Sundays, 10pm EST
Premiere date: March 2, 2008

“Even network news is recycling the story. So much for covering the bombings in Iraq.”

We all kind of have a secret love affair with tabloid press. We perch ourselves on one side or the other of the unspoken moral argument, but however you look at it, we’re all guilty. We’ve all read the stories or seen the headlines. I wouldn’t say most of us knowingly seek them out, but it’s almost impossible to avoid. Why would we? As sad a commentary as it is to say aloud, it’s free entertainment. Equally sad is the fact that it’s not entirely our fault. We really have nowhere to hide and we really have no choice. Over the past decade, tabloid press has risen from the seedy underbelly of journalism to the mainstream. You can barely pull up the front page of a news website, read the paper, or turn on the national news without the barrage of ‘now what happened?’ information being regurgitated onto us about the latest celebrity train wreck flavor of the week. As sensational as it is and as much as part of us wants to see them turn it all around, we keep reading out of sheer morbid curiosity. Anyway, that’s just what constitutes 'news'...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

DVD Review: 'Dirt' Season 1

Dirt
The Complete First Season
Starring Courteney Cox, Ian Hart
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Available Dec. 11, 2007

If you've never seen an episode of the FX Network series Dirt, chances are the only thing you know about the show is that it stars Courteney Cox, of Friends fame, and for some reason she's wearing a lengthy red dress against the backdrop of a major city in all the show's promo materials.

But take a closer look at that promo shot and you'll notice that there are people being suffocated beneath the train of that flowing blood-red dress. And the city ... that's Hollywood...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!