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- A drama about the scandalous lives of a group of four girlfriends - each on her own path to self-discovery as they brave the turbulent journey together. Meet Savi (Alyssa Milano), a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life, both professional and personal; simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband Harry (Brett Tucker) are trying to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister Josselyn (Jes Macallan) couldn't be more different - living single, serial dating and partying - and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their mutual best friend, April (Rochelle Aytes), a recent widow and mother of one, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward - with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen (Yunjin Kim), a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.- Written by Official site
Love, Friendship and Cheating Hearts
Though derived from a British series that was itself apparently inspired by "Sex and the City," "Mistresses" carries very little hint of any complex lineage, give or take a few scenes that could, with ferocious effort, evoke memories of Carrie Bradshaw and company. The series knows its heart, which is squarely in the tradition of the prime-time soap, no philosophy about women's careers, sex or Jimmy Choo shoes included—and an enormously beguiling model of the form it is, too.
Yunjin Kim and John Schneider ABC
That's not to say women's careers aren't central to this story of four devoted friends, or that sex isn't a prime ingredient—the premiere episode's opening scenes made that abundantly clear. But once past an introductory flow of steamy images—plenty of stripping and unzipping, couplings in darkened rooms—it takes no time to recognize the quality in this sharply written and entertaining saga of four women destined to lead exceedingly complicated lives.
The star presence in this quartet is Savi ( Alyssa Milano), a no-nonsense attorney with marital problems that stem from her husband's suspected infertility and her own dubious view of childbearing just as she's gaining status at her law firm. Her husband, Harry, played by an enormously appealing Brett Tucker, is profoundly demoralized over the matter of his sperm count—a not so terrible problem, it will turn out, compared with other threats to his masculinity of which he's unaware. For instance, his wife's brief office fling with colleague Dominic ( Jason George)—a temptation that arose, it's explained, from the tensions she experienced at home during protracted efforts to become pregnant. It's a testament to the skills that inform the script, and cause it to be distinguished from fluff, that the forces that drive these characters are accounted for, meticulously scrutinized.
They do a lot that requires explaining, these friends. Karen ( Yunjin Kim), a dedicated psychiatrist, has not only fallen in love and had an affair with her patient, a wealthy, important and very married man facing a terminal illness, she's also provided him, at his request, with a lethal supply of morphine to ease him to a quick death when the time comes. No good comes to her from any of this wholesale breaking of rules, but it's pure gold for plot development—the source of endless rich complications, most of them disastrous, that haunt Karen after her lover's death.
As is the case when trouble threatens any one of the group, the friends are there, "Sex and the City" style, to listen endlessly and give advice—though no one in that glittering series was ever required to advise on calamities of the size that threaten in this drama set in Southern California. April ( Rochelle Aytes), a young widow who cherishes the memory of her adored husband, is devastated by her confrontation with hitherto unknown facts about that husband's real life—the kind that can't be made to go away. Josslyn (Jes Macallan), a real-estate agent and the only untroubled and serene woman around, is—not surprisingly—the least interesting character.
None of this is to say that "Mistresses" lacks gaiety and fun—it doesn't. There's plenty of buoyancy and blue skies. It's that the really delectable fun, the best of the sparkle, is to be found in the darkest plots, the looming catastrophes, which promise to come in an endless flow.
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Though derived from a British series that was itself apparently inspired by "Sex and the City," "Mistresses" carries very little hint of any complex lineage, give or take a few scenes that could, with ferocious effort, evoke memories of Carrie Bradshaw and company. The series knows its heart, which is squarely in the tradition of the prime-time soap, no philosophy about women's careers, sex or Jimmy Choo shoes included—and an enormously beguiling model of the form it is, too.
Yunjin Kim and John Schneider ABC
That's not to say women's careers aren't central to this story of four devoted friends, or that sex isn't a prime ingredient—the premiere episode's opening scenes made that abundantly clear. But once past an introductory flow of steamy images—plenty of stripping and unzipping, couplings in darkened rooms—it takes no time to recognize the quality in this sharply written and entertaining saga of four women destined to lead exceedingly complicated lives.
The star presence in this quartet is Savi ( Alyssa Milano), a no-nonsense attorney with marital problems that stem from her husband's suspected infertility and her own dubious view of childbearing just as she's gaining status at her law firm. Her husband, Harry, played by an enormously appealing Brett Tucker, is profoundly demoralized over the matter of his sperm count—a not so terrible problem, it will turn out, compared with other threats to his masculinity of which he's unaware. For instance, his wife's brief office fling with colleague Dominic ( Jason George)—a temptation that arose, it's explained, from the tensions she experienced at home during protracted efforts to become pregnant. It's a testament to the skills that inform the script, and cause it to be distinguished from fluff, that the forces that drive these characters are accounted for, meticulously scrutinized.
They do a lot that requires explaining, these friends. Karen ( Yunjin Kim), a dedicated psychiatrist, has not only fallen in love and had an affair with her patient, a wealthy, important and very married man facing a terminal illness, she's also provided him, at his request, with a lethal supply of morphine to ease him to a quick death when the time comes. No good comes to her from any of this wholesale breaking of rules, but it's pure gold for plot development—the source of endless rich complications, most of them disastrous, that haunt Karen after her lover's death.
As is the case when trouble threatens any one of the group, the friends are there, "Sex and the City" style, to listen endlessly and give advice—though no one in that glittering series was ever required to advise on calamities of the size that threaten in this drama set in Southern California. April ( Rochelle Aytes), a young widow who cherishes the memory of her adored husband, is devastated by her confrontation with hitherto unknown facts about that husband's real life—the kind that can't be made to go away. Josslyn (Jes Macallan), a real-estate agent and the only untroubled and serene woman around, is—not surprisingly—the least interesting character.
None of this is to say that "Mistresses" lacks gaiety and fun—it doesn't. There's plenty of buoyancy and blue skies. It's that the really delectable fun, the best of the sparkle, is to be found in the darkest plots, the looming catastrophes, which promise to come in an endless flow.
Full Season on Xmovie8
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