Femme Fatales, more lackluster late night from Cinemax...
FEMME FATALES: 01 "Behind Locked Doors" This is a really bad late night series.The first sex scene does not begin until twenty minutes into the episode. Its a lesbian scene, and it only lasts one minute and ten seconds. The next sex scene happens some minutes later. Its a boy/girl scene and it lasts two minutes. Both sex scenes are shot and edited like an action scene from a Michael Bay movie. Nothing graphic happens. In fact, besides the nudity, they are just as tame as what you'd see on network television.
Tanit Phoenix acts as narrator/presenter, but you don't see much of her; she's shot from the chest up. There are actually more revealing shots of her in the opening credits.
Compare this late night series episode to another available onDemand right now: SIN CITY DIARIES: 08 "To the Extreme". "Behind Locked Doors"'s running time is forty-two minutes while "To the Extreme"'s running time is forty minutes, yet, "To the Extreme"'s first sex scene happens within four minutes and twenty seconds, and lasts for five minutes and fifteen seconds. There are three more sex scenes in this episode while "Behind Locked Doors" only has two.
It seems that all of the attention (and money) while making FEMME FATALES is going for sets and casting. The sex scenes and sexiness in general are after thoughts at best.
The actors in this episode seem almost embarrassed to be doing sex scenes. Indeed, even the cameraman, by the way the camera seems to move AWAY from the action whenever possible, seems embarrassed to be shooting sex scenes.
I suppose its just an extension of Cinemax's own apprehension to producing a real late night series.
score 1/10
FizzenBarber 13 May 2011
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2433145/15042
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