modmissymissy Sets and locations that are sanitary and clean. Mostly expensive hotels. Understated everything -- acting, attire, voice. Sex. Nudity. Lots of it. But leaves you cold and unfeeling. The only episode from Season 1 that had some emotion and is directed really well is the penultimate one called Home. Where the protagonist meets her family.And no matter how politically incorrect this sounds, I'm putting it out there. This serial glorifies the call girl profession like nothing else. So much so that the protagonist chucks up her law studies to become a full time call girl. All because one of her sex videos goes viral and everyone gets to know her hidden profession. Or maybe because she just finds it too lucrative and enjoyable that working hard at law. It's implied that the profession is far more lucrative without having to do any studying or hard work.And in the process, the serial has misogynistic scenes, lots of sexual intercourse, lots of boob and bum on display, lots of nude genitals grinding, lots of masturbation, and even some lesbian scenes. It even shows her going on watching herself masturbate in a recording on her CCTV camera! On loop! All these scenes are solely for the purpose of titillation. The producers and director have managed to use the grey-blue-black palette to look like they're producing "serious content" which gets nominated for Golden Globes and the like. When actually it's got as much content as a porn movie.Disappointing experience is more like it. Give me Desperate Housewives any day!

jon-385 I'v watched a few episodes now and I can't truly follow a story line. This show to me is basically a porn flick. If you have children, you might want to make sure there not watching this because it's always running if you have HBO. Seriously, every episodes I've watched so far seems exactly the same.

TheAnimalMother Let me start by saying that I thought the original film of the same name, was brutally bad in nearly every way. However the premise and theme had potential I thought, so I decided to check the series out in hopes that it may far exceed the film. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case at all. This series is if anything, probably worse than the film.I understand the main theme here, everyone is out for themselves, looking to take advantage of practically anyone they can for selfish purposes. There is a lot of truth to this theme in our modern society. Many people have become completely lost in the idea of chasing their own desires first and foremost. The whole 'survival of the fittest' mindset is one that many have adopted due mostly to Western academic ignorance, and the nearly endless propaganda behind the self survival idea. Of course without this kind of mindset among many of the masses, is the current and recent history of capitalistic economic domination by the Westernized world even remotely possible? You can determine the answer to that question yourself, as the issue is far from black and white. However there is no doubt to any honest and rational person, that greed has been systematically ingrained into much of our modern societies thought patterns, mainly by generations of highly detached and selfish people in high and influential places. Most of these people, ruled of course by fear and desire. Some way, some how these people simply lost or never found a more honest way to ground themselves in a more stable mindset, such as compassion and a sense of community. It's definitely sad, but today the industrialized world is littered with zombified people, lost in greed and fear and out for nothing but themselves.As for the series itself, it makes this point, but not very well. It also says basically nothing else except that these people have a strong detachment from their feelings. They are robot-like people, zombified as I like to say, that have lost almost complete touch with their hearts/feelings. Everything to them is about outward appearance and objective power in the world. To them, everything is of the mind, the heart and all their inner feelings are ignored, in most cases habitually. As in, it has become habit for them. In reality, many people turn away from their hearts because the pain of their past feelings has led them to fear being in touch with their deeper inner self. Sadly this series fails to explore any origin or root of these problems at all in any character, nor does the show seem to care. Perhaps the series was made by these exact kinds of people, lol.To be completely blunt, the direction and writing in this series is amateur hour stuff to say the least. It's flat out terrible. I've seen better plays constructed by children in terms of depth and intelligence. Some of the acting is fairly good, but certainly not all. The lead character is played by the somewhat stunning Riley Keough, Granddaughter of Elvis himself. In such a terrible series it's honestly hard to say how good of an actress she really is. She mostly plays a very emotionally flat character, with absolutely no realistic depth in terms of the writing. So it would be unfair of me to say that she was good or bad really. In nearly fifty percent of the series, Riley seems to suffer from 'resting bitch face'. Otherwise Riley looked quite beautiful in much of the show, and at the very least showed some definite potential as an actress. It was a big stretch to believe that her character was an intellectually successful law student, and could charge $1000 or more per hour as an escort. I'd point the majority of blame at the writers and the direction again though, and not so much the actress. An actor or actress is often limited greatly by the material, which is definitely the case here for the most part I'd say. The series overall lacked any kind of lasting intrigue, consistency, depth or believability. In other words, it lacked in almost every aspect, just as the film did. That was the only thing consistent about the series, as the story was all over the place with not much at all to say. I would define it most accurately as needless trash T.V.I find it hard to believe that anyone actually decided to renew this series for a second season. Truly laughable! A little sad too. It's a very sexual show however, so I'm sure it gets it's share of viewers no matter how bad the product actually is. This is Hollyweird, and mainly the same ol' shallow stories are told. Chase the glitz and glam kids, lust after the dollars and the flesh, your heart and your fellow humans are just pains in your ass along the road of life. Salut!

vigomio While many may hate this series for politically correct reasons or because they are not used to adult pacing (as opposed to juvenile comic book-style movies full of flashy editing), I was taken in by it ... but mostly because of Riley Keough, who is a very natural, subtle actress. The series features a little titillation here and there, but it's tasteful, artfully photographed, and looks great. The show works in that -- even though the protagonist is a person of questionable moral values, she's surrounded by all these far more horrible, reptilian people (lawyers and other wretched/inhuman scum). So, by comparison, she comes off as the most empathetic person on the whole show; you end up bonding with her because you hate everyone else. (As Robert McKee often says: "Empathy ... is absolute, while sympathy is optional." Meaning empathy is enough ... to keep us engaged. We empathize with the main character, but we don't necessarily sympathize with her. ) I also like the protagonist's rebellious streak and admired her discipline and focus. As the actress herself said about the character: "she's driven." (Driven to a fault, actually.) There's also something terribly sad about her too. We can sense her loneliness as, obviously, she has no friends. In fact, there's an existential quality about the whole show, which is emphasized with the Cliff Martinez-like ambient music underscoring many scenes. But this show is all about the actress, Riley Keough. Having said this, I didn't care for the final show of the season, which was a bit much (maybe a bad idea stretched out for the whole episode). I would love to see this show continue -- but only with same actress. I've already watched some episodes more than once, and I'm sure I'll watch the whole season again. It's worth owning.Bottom line: Check it out. And kudos to Riley Keough for her sophisticated, subtle performance.