The series revolves around Lucy Spiller and her best friend,
the schizophrenic freelance photographer Don Konkey, who aids
Lucy in her career as editor-in-chief of Dirt and Now Magazine,
which Lucy merges into a single magazine at the end of the
second episode due to budget issues. Most episodes focus upon
Lucy's neverending quest to find new news stories regarding
celebrities, with help of her staff of reporters and
photographers, most notably Don and the young upstart writer
Willa McPherson.
As the series progresses, we learn more about Lucy and Don's
personal lives. Don is a functional schizophrenic, who regular
hallucinates and hears voices, which is often filtered through
his sense of guilt over the questionable actions he takes in
order to help Lucy land her stories and the fall-out that comes
from exposing people's dark secrets. Lucy meanwhile is secretly
depressed person whose life is totally devoted towards the
magazine, to the extent of forgoing any sort of social life
whatsoever. Her relationship with her family is strained, in
part due to the mysterious suicide of her father, which haunts
Lucy due to the cryptic suicide note that he left her, which
she kept from the rest of her family.
One of the main subplots of season one is Lucy and Don's
relationship with Holt McLaren and the love triangle that
erupts between Lucy, Holt, and Holt's current girlfriend Julia
Mallory, a popular sitcom star who's begun breaking out into
horrible movies while Holt's career has tanked after a series
of movies he has done, flopped. In an attempt to convert Holt
into a secret source for potential stories, Lucy offers to use
the full resources of her magazine to revive Holt's career.
In exchange, Holt reveals that Julia's best friend is pregnant
after a one-night stand with a fellow actor and the actress
(who thinks Julia leaked the story) kills herself via a drug
overdose as a result of the public humiliation. Furthermore,
Lucy reveals that Julia has cheated on Holt with the co-star
of her recently released film, causing Holt to have a mini-
breakdown while driving and purposely crashing his car while
driving along with Julia. This causes Julia to suffer severe
injuries, which leads to an addiction to painkillers and
ultimately full-blown drug addiction. To revive her career and
gain public sympathy, Julia secretly obtains and leaks a copy
of her having sex with her co-star and falsely accuses her
co-star of rape, though Lucy ultimately exposes her lies in
the basement.
As Holt's star rises and his girlfriend's plummets, Holt and
Lucy begin a relationship which ultimately is exposed to Julia
by a rival magazine editor/friend of Lucy's. Julia ultimately
realizes that Lucy has helped ruined her life and attacks her
with a knife, leaving Lucy bleeding to death. Contacting Don,
season one ends with Lucy ordering Don to take photos of her
laying on the ground horribly embarrassed, in order to ensure
that her magazine will be able to have the ugly photos for the
story on the attempt on her life.
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