Dirt

Dirt

I spent the last few days watching the new TV series, Dirt. I don't think Singapore will ever get to watch it because it is pretty blatant. In US, it is marked for Mature Audiences. Let me share with you a quick snapshot of the first few episodes through this Youtube trailer.

The show has a very simple storyline. A magazine editor, Lucy Spiller, seeks the report truth about celebrities' secret lives. Subsequently, she started going for people's secret lives. And she's good.

"Dirt Now", the magazine that Lucy edits, is the amalgamation of two magazines - Dirt and Now. Dirt concentrated on exposes but it was hard to get advertisers because of the profiles of the people who get exposed. Now is the magazine that concentrated on breaking news but sales are dismal.

Dirt Now, as Lucy proclaimed, will be the best of both.

Lucy has a devoted schizophrenic classmate, Don Carson, who was a photographer for Dirt and now with Dirt Now. He is one character to watch. In one assignment, he actually cut off his pinkie so that he could sneak into the ICU to take pictures of a fallen gospel singer who finally set herself on fire because "she could not take this life anymore". Is that bitchy or what?

Lucy's brother, Leo, is an interior designer who scored a job with a Brad Pitt-lookalike, called Jack Dawson in the show. Well, at the end of episode 3, Leo asked Jack if he could ask an awkward question. Jack said he was thinking of the same. He walked to Leo, kissed him and then proceeded to blow Leo.

Of course, Leo finally caught Jack being serviced by his personal trainer when he went over. There was an acrimonious break-up and Don went to snap pictures of Jack and his playmate but got caught. Poor guy got locked up and Lucy had to bail him out and settle for him.

It has been an enjoyable ride so far and I've watched all 7 available episodes. I'm now waiting.

And where is my Desperate Housewives Episodes 13, 14, 15? Grr....