I Owe ‘Dirt’ a Semi-Apology
A while back, I wondered whether «Dirt» had decided to go in a lighter, fluffier, arc-free direction to try to attract viewers. The first couple of episodes were disconnected from the more complicated Season One episodes.
Judging from Sunday’s outing, that line of thought might have been premature.
Last season we were introduced to Prince Tyrese, a Jordanesque basketball player who ratted out hip-hop promoter Tweety McDaniel out to DirtNow as a murderer of one of his hottest artists. But when Tweety and his thug put some heat to publisher Brent, Tweety was able to learn Prince was Lucy’s source and hobbled Prince in retaliation.
On Sunday, after running into Prince at a charity function, Lucy decides to target Tweety in retaliation. She gets a lead on one of Tweety’s baby mamas, and learns that Tweety is a rapist, gets caught in a hotel-room trap by him — and long story short, Tweety down in flames after insulting his «face like a rhino» daughter one time too many. Looks like he learned how to drop it like it’s hot the hard way.
Meanwhile, Don found himself a secret-sex dungeon prisoner of an actress turned politician and her messed-up family. They were gonna kill him, but then they realized how truly messed up Junior was and let him go. Is it bad for me to hope that the episode pushes Don back to insanity? He was a lot more interesting then.
And Brent was up to inter-office sabotage, bonding with an eccentric billionaire over hot chicks and blow (and who wouldn’t?) to entice him to buy DirtNow. I’d like to think he got prompted to this by bringing Tweety McDaniel back into his life.
So in short, it’s good to see some callbacks to last season and there’s reason to hope it will continue for the few remaining episodes this season.
From the coming attractions, it looks like we’re going to have Holt return in the next episode amidst allegations that he had a white supremacist past.
I’ll not doubt you again, «Dirt.» At least till next episode..
– posted by Raoul
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