She’s baaa-ack. By she we mean Lucy Spiller, the cutthroat, merciless editrix played by Courteney Cox on FX’s Dirt, which returns for a second season this Sunday. When we last saw Spiller, she was stabbed and left for dead outside her home after a jaded junkie actress decided to, er, make some cuts to Spiller’s tabloid story that trashed her. We weren’t sure if FX would bring Spiller and the show itself back after a debut season of so-so ratings and largely lackluster reviews. We’re glad the powers that be decided to allow the actors grow into their roles a bit and let the tension build because, from what we’ve seen, the second season sinks its barbs into all the right celebutards in inventive, amusing ways.
Although real-life counterparts are not directly identified by name, when you see a rich, club-hopping, pooch-toting starlet named “Milan Carlton” get publicly whipped in a small foreign country for being busted with cocaine, we all know which heiress the writers are gunning for. Other pulled-from-the-headlines references include David Hasselhoff’s drunken burger-feast on the floor, Nicole Richie’s wrong turn onto a California freeway, and Alec Baldwin’s irate and profanity-laden voice message to his young daughter.
Some people have questioned whether Cox, who also serves as executive producer of the show along with husband David Arquette, should ridicule someone as unstable as Britney Spears, who is poked fun of in future episodes. “I am not out to offend anyone,” Cox has said.
Her show’s alter ego would laugh it all off, and so should you. Dirt airs on March 2 and every Sunday at 10PM ET/PT on FX.
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