5 is a fitting score for this series. It was not unwatchable but it certainly has its flaws. The producers have put forward a mediocre effort on a subject that should be fascinating. There are very few insights into the subject of sex and how North Americans deal with it. It is rather an expose on hedonism and ultimately how shallow it can be.
Damon - the founder of sanctum comes across as shallow while trying to appear deep and his employees come across as sycophantic. No where is this summed up better than when Damon is planning a circus themed private party for one of the platinum members of the club. Instead of circus he goes with a m\Marie Antoinette theme and then incorrectly states there was a rumor that she had sex with a horse. Showing a confident ignorance after his employees express doubt about having Marie Antoinette at a circus theme he presses on. Neither his English operations manager or French event planner challenge him on the fact that it was Catherine the great who was rumored to have had sex with a horse, If anyone would know it should have been those two.
The producers have failed to create any kind of pathos for the characters instead leaving them as shallow 2 dimension images. One of the performs is featured with his girlfriend who predictably has a problem with what he does. In one scene Damon is agonizing over his broken marriage (lost due to his lifestyle) and in the next he is having a threesome with hired prostitutes. I say prostitutes because performers or not they are having sex for money. In the end the producers show little more than the fact that people are going to do what makes them happy without any real insight to what real happiness might be or what real intimacy might look like.
I feel sorry for every one employed at SNCTM and hope they can come to some real self examination.
Overall a mediocre effort.
Damon - the founder of sanctum comes across as shallow while trying to appear deep and his employees come across as sycophantic. No where is this summed up better than when Damon is planning a circus themed private party for one of the platinum members of the club. Instead of circus he goes with a m\Marie Antoinette theme and then incorrectly states there was a rumor that she had sex with a horse. Showing a confident ignorance after his employees express doubt about having Marie Antoinette at a circus theme he presses on. Neither his English operations manager or French event planner challenge him on the fact that it was Catherine the great who was rumored to have had sex with a horse, If anyone would know it should have been those two.
The producers have failed to create any kind of pathos for the characters instead leaving them as shallow 2 dimension images. One of the performs is featured with his girlfriend who predictably has a problem with what he does. In one scene Damon is agonizing over his broken marriage (lost due to his lifestyle) and in the next he is having a threesome with hired prostitutes. I say prostitutes because performers or not they are having sex for money. In the end the producers show little more than the fact that people are going to do what makes them happy without any real insight to what real happiness might be or what real intimacy might look like.
I feel sorry for every one employed at SNCTM and hope they can come to some real self examination.
Overall a mediocre effort.
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