If you love Entourage , early CSI , or the neon-drenched photography of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice , dig up this season. It’s not high art—but in the dark of 2007, it was a hell of a good time.
However, revisiting it in the 2020s, the series holds up better than expected. Modern critics on forums like Reddit and Letterboxd have praised the show’s "anthology format" as a precursor to shows like Easy or Modern Love . While the sexual content is abundant (it was on Cinemax, after all), it rarely feels exploitative. The nudity usually serves the plot of betrayal or vulnerability rather than pure titillation. For collectors, this is the tricky part. Sin City Diaries has never received a high-definition Blu-ray release. The official DVD was released in 2008 as a "Best of Season 1" set, missing three episodes. Sin City Diaries -2007- Season-1
For those who missed it the first time around, or for collectors hunting for obscure 2000s media, here is your definitive guide to the first season of Sin City Diaries . To understand Season 1, you have to look at the climate of 2007. The housing bubble was about to burst, but Vegas was still booming. CSI had made forensic science cool, and poker was the new rock and roll. Against this backdrop, producer Mark Wegel (known for The Best Sex Ever and Life on Top ) pitched a show that would act as a love letter to the hotel-casino lifestyle. If you love Entourage , early CSI ,