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Dirt: Blogan (2007)
A great episode
"Blogan" takes us under a lot of dirt: first of all, it brings a more human dimension to Lucy, with a brief dream sequence that shows us a wheel-secluded secret lying under the cold surface of this woman apparently strong but fragile and vulnerable. Has the dream sequence something to do with the fascination of Don for the death (first Tristan the cat, and now the frail corpse of Kira)?
And then, the cover-story of the week: spicy, sleazy, entertaining. Blaire and Logan - whose maid earn a lot less money than Tom & Katie's - try to mess with the media, showing the weakness of a whole world, prisoner of itself: a world where is easier to pretend to be something than really be; a world where a lie is more believable than the truth; a world where the boundaries between reality and dream collapse under the "public imagination" (not more a "public opinion"), the constant manipulation that the audience want, believing in a lie bigger than life.
Dirt (2007)
Fairly intriguing, surely entertaining
The pilot of "Dirt" isn't probably original, well-written or brightly directed; nevertheless it's visually stunning (think of the scenes involving Don, the cat, the worm-like words) and the acting was fine: Courtney Cox gives a good performance as Lucy Spiller, playing a character more intriguing and complex than cold ad flat. Yes, in this tabloid editor there's more than meets the eye: think, i.e., of the scene, near the finale, in which she met Don, desperate for the death of Tristan and, suddenly, both of them begin to cry and hug each other. Most part of the critics point that in the show there aren't sympathetic character: but could this be a reason for despise the show? I don't think so. In the real life, it's hard to find someone completely good, or innocent: the pilot was realistic enough to show every character as a mix of light and shadow, most of all Don Konkey. The special effects are wisely used to show the disturbing vision of Don: in these scene the pilot achieve great pathos, although other scenes were instead a little flat, like the ones with Holt or Julia (even if I really laughed when Kira says "I'm so totally Catholic!"), where the script become a little stereotypical.
In conclusion: the pilot really wasn't perfect, but it was fairly intriguing and surely entertaining; and, in my opinion, the show - working on the complex morality of the character instead on their shallowness - has a great potential.