Marda Kaleeko's contribution to the Girlfriends Films mythos develops with plenty of complications, but very murky psychological reasoning for the sexy goings-on. While I prefer the connected characters sagas to those easy 1-off vignettes in terms of storytelling, this series is a bit much.
That's because the original premise of a community of lesbians keeping up appearances that being a lesbian is a perversion of all that is well & good has gotten old fast due to repetition and unbelievable scheming. In the third episode center of attention is Faye Reagan, Magdalene's beautiful step-daughter who everybody (including the loyal viewers) wants to get into bed with.
Instead of the customary (nowadays) four sex scenes we're treated to five, running well over 3 hours. An attractive unknown actress named just Ariella (IMDb confuses her name-wise with Girlfriends regular player Ariella Ferrera, but they have nothing in common) plays a neighbor lady who masturbates and fantasizes a hot scene of Reagan making love to her step-mom St. Michaels, to get the show rolling.
Faye is then seduced (for real) by Maggie's business partner Samantha Ryan, and the young FR is vulnerable but hard to swallow as such a timid, little-girl-voiced introvert in this role.
A couple more lesser known players, but with good looks striking enough to earn the video's front cover shot, Daisy Layne and the late Amber Rayne make love in the next clinch. This scene is quite odd in that these two make plenty of off-the-cuff wisecracks during their sex scene.
Next twist is really far-fetched: Daisy in some weird form of blackmail, the details of which made little sense to me, insists that Maggie make love to cute Bobbi Starr in front of her. This scene has the trappings of a threesome, but Daisy is more voyeuse than participant. Two hidden cameras are at work recording lesbian sex that would prove incriminating if they were distributed. Dana DeArmond blackmails Samantha regarding a tape of her with Faye, and will suppress it if Sam acquiesces to servicing her too. That occurs and episode ends with a nice cliffhanger as Dana is on the phone with an unseen and mysterious Jana (stay tuned to see her in Episode 4), reporting that Sam "took the bait".
All this skulduggery in order to earn lesbian sack-time is a bit much, but at least the fans are treated to quality sex. As in any mystery, the motivations, plot twists and relationships have to make sense, and so far Marda has failed to clear that bar.
That's because the original premise of a community of lesbians keeping up appearances that being a lesbian is a perversion of all that is well & good has gotten old fast due to repetition and unbelievable scheming. In the third episode center of attention is Faye Reagan, Magdalene's beautiful step-daughter who everybody (including the loyal viewers) wants to get into bed with.
Instead of the customary (nowadays) four sex scenes we're treated to five, running well over 3 hours. An attractive unknown actress named just Ariella (IMDb confuses her name-wise with Girlfriends regular player Ariella Ferrera, but they have nothing in common) plays a neighbor lady who masturbates and fantasizes a hot scene of Reagan making love to her step-mom St. Michaels, to get the show rolling.
Faye is then seduced (for real) by Maggie's business partner Samantha Ryan, and the young FR is vulnerable but hard to swallow as such a timid, little-girl-voiced introvert in this role.
A couple more lesser known players, but with good looks striking enough to earn the video's front cover shot, Daisy Layne and the late Amber Rayne make love in the next clinch. This scene is quite odd in that these two make plenty of off-the-cuff wisecracks during their sex scene.
Next twist is really far-fetched: Daisy in some weird form of blackmail, the details of which made little sense to me, insists that Maggie make love to cute Bobbi Starr in front of her. This scene has the trappings of a threesome, but Daisy is more voyeuse than participant. Two hidden cameras are at work recording lesbian sex that would prove incriminating if they were distributed. Dana DeArmond blackmails Samantha regarding a tape of her with Faye, and will suppress it if Sam acquiesces to servicing her too. That occurs and episode ends with a nice cliffhanger as Dana is on the phone with an unseen and mysterious Jana (stay tuned to see her in Episode 4), reporting that Sam "took the bait".
All this skulduggery in order to earn lesbian sack-time is a bit much, but at least the fans are treated to quality sex. As in any mystery, the motivations, plot twists and relationships have to make sense, and so far Marda has failed to clear that bar.