Thje Girls Guide to Depravity is Crass.

[Guy Gardener]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184737/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I watched 13 episodes of Mr. Sunshine Yesterday (Only 9 aired on TV. Look! A reason to buy the DVD.) so I did really needed a show today with some real grunt to get my heart pumping again after that sad fart.

Made by/for Cinemax, there is less frontal nudity and simulated sex in it than you would think, maybe 3 or 4 minutes per episode, but the rest is a tragedy about two attractive barflies in their early 20's who try to find a new meaningless casual sexual encounter each week but somehow everything always goes horribly wrong... Imagine if Sex and the City wasn't mostly about a prude who wanted her virginity back.

There are rules to getting away with casual sex, that were given to the two heroines of our story which they must follow, and each episode explores a different rule, and explains why that rule is logical and necessary, and sometimes the pain of ignoring that rule.

I'm halfway through season one, it's getting funnier, and the TV is half way through season 2.

Opinions?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Re: The Girls Guide to Depravity is Crass.

A late night Skinemax show called "The Girls Guide to Depravity" is crass? Color me shocked.

Even their more "highbrow" fare which airs earlier in the night and is intended for a broader audience isn't what I'd call empowering for women.

I don't think this show was ever really intended to be taken all that seriously or meant to be much more than marginally above soft core porn given the z-list cast.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I can explain the Z-list cast... It's filmed in Bavaria.

One of the lead actresses is Canadian, and the other has three writing credits on the show, hopefully that means that she wrote some scripts, and not just ad libbed some dirty jokes half way through a handful of episodes.

An odd aside is that both the leads look like Billie Piper seen through a complimentary funhouse mirror.

Oh, and the series is based on a blog of the same name.

I miss Shit my Dad says, even though I have no image in my head for what the son looks like.