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Dirt vs. Entourage: What is Hollywood Really Like?

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By: Rustycat | in: TV |

Dirt, FX’s peek into the world of tabloid celebrity, stars Courteney Cox (who also executive produces) as a ruthless editor in charge of two celebrity-driven magazines, “Dirt” and “Now”. 

 Dirt

The first three episodes allow us to peer into her success. It’s that same success that makes her one of the most hated people in Hollywood and carries the burden of a fatal fate for her subjects and colleagues. The series focuses on Lucy (Cox) and her childhood friend, the not so stable, yet, functioning schizophrenic, Don Konkey. For me, his character is what makes this dark gloomy look at Hollywood’s backstage, a definite must.

Entourage

Entourage on the other hand, is all about toys, hot girls, fast cars, and fun. We all know the gang from the hit HBO series in its three hilarious, cynically scripted and well acted seasons.  Vince Chase is a sexy young actor whose career is on the rise. To share the fun of his ride (and his cash) to the top of Hollywood ladder and keep him grounded, Vince looks to Eric, Drama and Turtle, his childhood buddies from Queens.

Let’s talk differences.

Where Entourage aims for the viewers’ playful emotions and their childhood dreams of being famous and rich, Dirt takes a different, darker, approach and shows us it’s not all about fun and babes. On the contrary, it’s more about selling your soul to the media and never looking back. The Entourage characters are joyful, pot smoking easy going fellas, where as in Dirt, one OD’s in the first episode, one’s a prick and our favorite couple, Kira and Holt, are so screwed up it’s disturbing at times.

So who are we to believe?

The dreamer in me wants to believe that Vince and the gang from Entourage are the definite Hollywood dream. But the other part, the one that has already seen David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the tale of a good girl turned Hollywood whore – the Marylyn Monroe story (for those who haven’t figured the plot by now), is telling me Dirt is a little more authentic.

Luckily, I don’t have to address these issues seriously right now, because I’m not going to be a Hollywood star in the near future. I’ll deal with it when it comes, and for the time being, I’ll enjoy both series, because they’re amazingly good.

 


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Posted on January 23, 2007

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