Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete Second and Final Season (2009, Buena Vista)
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You may not recall, but there were two “rich folks with problems” TV shows that premiered in the fall of 2007: the CW’s hit series Gossip Girl and ABC’s drama, Dirty Sexy Money. While the former continues to thrive, Dirty Sexy Money has been canceled. For those of you loyal enough to stick with the show, and those of you curious for something stylized and slick, Buena Vista has released the final 13 episodes of the show in a three-DVD box set that includes deleted scenes, a behind the scenes “day on the set” featurette with actress Natalie Zea, and bloopers.

Dirty Sexy Money starred Peter Krause (Six Feet Under) as Nick George, a well intentioned lawyer caught up in the abyss that is the Darling family, one of those rich and powerful New York clans you only see on television. Donald Sutherland co-starred as the family patriarch, Tripp Darling, Jill Clayburgh as his boozy wife, Letitia, and William Baldwin as one of his train wreck sons, Patrick. The first season was a hoot, as the producers also brought in Blair Underwood as the nemesis of the Darling family, Simon Elder, and introduced many people (myself included) to the wonderful talents of Natalie Zea and Glenn Fitzgerald, who played the spoiled, grown up Darling children Karen and Brian. Unfortunately for Dirty Sexy Money, the writer’s strike happened and ABC held off on producing any new episodes between January 2008 and the fall of that year. Any momentum the show had was killed and Dirty Sexy Money’s ratings were way down. By December the network pulled the show from air and eventually burned off the rest of the second season during this past summer… when no one was watching. (more…)