Mel ( Madeleine West) is being pursued by Nick ( Robert Mammone), the owner of '232', whose daughter, Natalie ( Kestie Morassi), is the manager. Chloe ( Diana Glenn) tells her 14-year-old daughter that she works in a casino, but realises that she will fairly soon learn the truth. The show is centred on five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their profession.
Satisfaction is set in and around '232', an up-market city brothel. On 31 December 2010, it was revealed by TV Tonight that Satisfaction was officially cancelled, and that season 3 was the last season in production. Production for the third season began in June 2009 and commenced screening in December 2009. It centres on the lives and loves of a group of women who are sex workers in a high class brothel. The series was filmed in Melbourne, and was created by writer/producer Roger Simpson with producer Andy Walker and executive producer Kim Vecera. It also screens in the Republic of Ireland on free-to-air channel TV3 and its sister channel 3e, and in New Zealand on free-to-air channel TV2 respectively. Kestie Morassi's character Natalie steps out of the periphery and engages in a power struggle with Mel (Madeleine West) over the ownership of 232 (the best little whorehouse in Melbourne), after the death of her father Nick (who was also Mel's lover, though where she found the time to have one I do not know - I need a nap after just watching some of her exploits.)Īnd Bojana Novakovic (Tippi) is finally given a decent storyline befitting her talents, rather than being the brothel's resident angelic airhead.Satisfaction is an Australian television drama series which screened on the subscription television channel Showcase. On the positive side, series two finally presents some much-needed conflict between the main characters, a welcome change to the Brady Bunch-brothel feel of series one. And that's just in the first two episodes of this second series. We have the violent "client" with a schoolgirl fetish, the ageing alcoholic artist who wants to sleep with his dead friend's daughter, the rich barrister with three kids who likes to do sexy time on his wife's appliances, and the guy who makes a girl neigh like a horse. I may have been the instigator of many an "all men are bastards" rant in my time, but even in my drunkest, darkest place, I've never made them out to be the scumbags that Satisfaction does.
Bea, Lizzie and even pathetic little Dor would have had the heads of this bunch under the industrial ironing machine the minute they stepped through the doors of the Wentworth Detention Centre.Īnd it's not just the female characters who are uninteresting. The Satisfaction characters in both series are one-dimensional, unlikeable, and I just don't care about them. This is gonna be the next Prisoner!"īut despite the talented cast, it hasn't delivered.
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"A show with lots of roles for local actresses that doesn't involve them mustering in a full face of make-up or wearing a wig, holding a suitcase and standing next to Andrew O'Keefe. When I first heard that Satisfaction was going into production, I was excited.
That would be perfectly fine if I was a 16-old-boy at home watching Foxtel (I initially thought it was a joke when I saw that the production company is called Lone Hand Productions), but I need more! I need storylines! I need characters to love! I need a weird-looking-yet-cute-guy-who-never-gets-the-girl-but-gets-all-the-good-lines to obsess over and make my screensaver! (Although I concede it should be a lot easier to get the girl in this show.)