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Dirty Sexy Money
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 10:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Peter Krause,
Donald Sutherland,
William Baldwin,
Natalie Zea,
Glenn Fitzgerald,
Samaire Armstrong,
Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan,
and
Jill Clayburgh
Peter Krause finds himself in more dirty business as a lawyer for a very powerful but dysfunctional family.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| CREATED BY: |
Craig Wright
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 26, 2007 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Stylized, soapy, silly, it's one of the most interesting shows this fall. [12 Oct 2007, p.64]
80
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Krause could be hard to digest as the self-righteous Nate on "Six Feet Under," but he makes a fine, amusingly flustered straight man to the cast of eccentrics that Wright and producer Greg Berlanti have assembled.
80
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Dirty Sexy Money lives up to its name.
80
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
As messy as it sounds, the cast is good, the show looks great and the executive producer is Greg Berlanti, a writer whose recent track record ("Everwood," "Jack & Bobby," "Brother & Sisters") is unmatched.
80
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
You don't usually encounter the words "smart" and "soap" in close proximity, but this is one of those exceptions.
80
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Dirty Sexy Money has everything you could hope for in a nighttime soap: a stellar cast, lush interiors, catfights, affairs, parties and jewels.
80
Newsday Diane Werts
Good thing is, this ABC hour lives up (down?) to its name, arriving as a wacky/kinky escapist saga of screwed-up rich folks and the down-to-earth family attorney/fixer hired to sort out their shenanigans.
80
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A great first hour gets this comedic drama off to a fine start.
80
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Anchored by the sensible sensitivity of Nick, Dirty Sexy goes over the top and back again, as brightly fun and cheesy as a carnival ride.
80
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The characters are engaging in their varying degrees of awfulness, and there appears to be plenty of story fodder for years to come.
80
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Dirty Sexy is right on the money.
80
Arizona Republic Randy Cordova
Dirty Sexy Money is filled with clever touches and neat subplots.
80
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The excellent cast keeps drawing you back--especially Donald Sutherland as family patriarch Tripp Darling, whose evil glint makes even as benign a phrase as ''good morning'' sound like ''I'm going to put an ice pick through your eye.'' Even better is Krause's portrayal of Nick, layers of exasperation upon fascination upon temptation.
75
New York Post Linda Stasi
Everybody's having too much fun--and that will include the viewers.
75
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
The show's ensemble cast -- which also includes Jill Clayburgh, William Baldwin and Samaire Armstrong ("Entourage") -- is pretty darn fabulous. And the entertaining result is sophisticated trash with stylish flash.
75
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Dirty Sexy Money is compelling even when it's not, funny when you're not quite sure it should be, ridiculous in the strangest spots and ultimately addictive if, for no other reason, you want to watch more episodes to find out what kind of beast it is.
70
New York Magazine John Leonard
Dirty Sexy Money so far lacks either Aaron Sorkin’s Gatling-gun wit or Alan Ball’s mordant mortuary humor.... That’s the bad news. The good news about Dirty Sexy Money is that we sorely require a show of its sort.
70
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Peter Krause, who looks as if he's finally going to have at least a little fun for a change as he plays a character immersing himself, however reluctantly, in the world of the ultra-rich and ultra-irresponsible.
63
USA Today Robert Bianco
Yet as often happens, tonight's premiere is far less than the sum of its parts. The tone shifts precariously from scene to scene, and Krause is too dull a presence here to tie the tones together. He has to serve as our entrant into this strange world, and in the pilot, he just seems disinterested.
60
Variety Brian Lowry
Yet despite an unusually high-octane (and yes, reasonably sexy) cast ably led by "Six Feet Under's" Peter Krause, the pilot doesn’t quite gel--feeling too determined to be quirky and provocative, and baited with a mystery that lacks the allure of the suicide that set "Housewives" in motion.
50
Slate Troy Patterson
"Six Feet Under's" Peter Krause plays the role with a sense of detachment that represents either the artistic choice of an actor playing it straight amid interminable clowning or the weary resignation of a dude who didn't know what he was getting into.
40
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The series, even after a second episode, is stuck in a rut. After awhile, the insane predicaments of these overprivileged characters are more pathetic than funny.
38
New York Daily News David Bianculli
Its humor, which dominates, isn't funny enough, and its occasional stabs at dramatic scenes aren't serious enough.
30
Washington Post Tom Shales
The facetious drama series--not quite a comedy, not quite not one--gathers together an annoying collection of eccentrics and misfits, all of them rich and greedy, few of them worth knowing.
20
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Executive producer Craig Wright sent a second episode out to critics "to give you an idea of where we're going," he said. The wrong direction, sadly, even after a disappointing pilot. I turned it off when the naked guy and girl in the bed started making big-banana jokes.
0
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Dirty Sexy Money, ABC's dull new drama starring Peter Krause ("Six Feet Under") and Donald Sutherland, contrives for your viewing displeasure one of the world's stupidest, richest and hate-worthy families called the Darlings.
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