Review: Tatiana Maslany is the reason you should watch 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed'
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Tatiana Maslany is the best reason to watch “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” a new thriller premiering Wednesday on Apple TV, and since there is a lot of her in it, across 10 episodes, you can take that as a recommendation, of a sort.Maslany plays Paula, a single mother, divorced and lonely.For some time, she has been spending time (and money) online with Trevor (Brandon Flynn), a “cam boy,” mostly for conversation, with a side of video sex.
(I don’t know if it’s customary in these things for the caller to be on camera as well, but, significantly, Paula is.) It seems nice and friendly — a relationship.Then one day, as she watches, Trevor is attacked by a masked intruder who speaks a few words in a foreign tongue before the picture goes blank.Det.
Gonzales (Dolly De Leon) suggests it may be fake.That Paula may have been recorded.
That blackmail could be in the offing.That she may get a call “like he’s in debt to some bad dudes or something like that and if he could get 10, maybe 20 grand, he can be free.” Which is what happens, and keeps happening, before it turns into a straight-out threat against Paula and her family.
Television Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson spoke about their new dark comedy thriller series on Apple TV and what they would do in a scenario where they are being scammed.Need I say that in the face of a slow police response — to be fair, she’s given them little to go on — Paula will turn into Nancy Drew, soon stumbling upon the first of the show’s dead bodies, and proceeding through a series of scrapes and skulkings, meanwhile trying to carve out time for her adorable young daughter, Hazel (Nola Wallace), whose soccer team she’s promised to co-coach, and navigating a time-consuming domestic drama with ex-husband Karl (Jake Johnson).(It’s a distraction for the viewer as well as for Paula.) Karl’s new wife, Mallory (Jessy Hodges)...