angela white and jill kassidy in “maid for each other: my m.a.i.d.d.”
scene title: maid for each other: my m.a.i.d.d.
performers: angela white, jill kassidy
site: girlsway (gamma)
production credits: casey calvert & eli cross (dir.), midnight (scr.)
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well, this was a weird one.
it's not an unusual scene in the girlsway canon: the site has frequently featured high-concept ridiculousness, from lesbian vampires to accidental aphrodisiac spells to visiting aliens. but it's the first time one of those silly high concepts has been attempted under a director other than stills by alan, and as little as i think of him as a person, he was one of the few who could occasionally pull off that kind of nonsense. i don't think casey and eli can. at least not yet.
jill kassidy is perfectly cast as the "cleaning droid" (she does great deadpan) and angela white is of course terrific as the rather nervous, sexually unfulfilled homeowner; but once the agreeable comedy of the opening sequences is over and jill has to start initiating dialogue rather than simply responding to angela's prompts, it falls apart. she never recaptures the stiffness or lack of inflection of the earlier part of the video, and angela has to continually bring up the premise in dialogue ("wow, it feels so real!") to keep the fantasy alive, however pallidly, in the light of jill's giggles and casual speech patterns. (it's possible i'm reading her performance wrong, and rather than the american conception of a stiff, formal robot i should have been looking for some hentai-ass love doll shit, demure and kawaii. but i don't think so.)
the gamma method of an outline plot filled in by improv didn't really work here, because jill just can't keep up with angela as an improviser: a more close-written script with story and character beats would have served her better. (she's been great in through-written missa x scenes, for example.) but the sexual performance is, as always with angela, off the charts. jill has no problem keeping up there, because she's a pro.
my complaints about the execution of the premise might well be down to the still-green directing team: the whole thing leading up to the sex seemed awkwardly staged and hastily shot, with little attempt to find good compositions or give the blocking any cohesion. the performances carried it anyway, and it was still quite competently shot compared to some of the true dreck i've slogged through here, but for such a bright sitcommy premise the angles felt oddly dramatic.
performances: 24
cinematography: 18
editing: 16
script: 9
sjw points: 0
total score:
performers: angela white, jill kassidy
site: girlsway (gamma)
production credits: casey calvert & eli cross (dir.), midnight (scr.)
trailer
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| l: jill kassidy, r: angela white |
well, this was a weird one.
it's not an unusual scene in the girlsway canon: the site has frequently featured high-concept ridiculousness, from lesbian vampires to accidental aphrodisiac spells to visiting aliens. but it's the first time one of those silly high concepts has been attempted under a director other than stills by alan, and as little as i think of him as a person, he was one of the few who could occasionally pull off that kind of nonsense. i don't think casey and eli can. at least not yet.
jill kassidy is perfectly cast as the "cleaning droid" (she does great deadpan) and angela white is of course terrific as the rather nervous, sexually unfulfilled homeowner; but once the agreeable comedy of the opening sequences is over and jill has to start initiating dialogue rather than simply responding to angela's prompts, it falls apart. she never recaptures the stiffness or lack of inflection of the earlier part of the video, and angela has to continually bring up the premise in dialogue ("wow, it feels so real!") to keep the fantasy alive, however pallidly, in the light of jill's giggles and casual speech patterns. (it's possible i'm reading her performance wrong, and rather than the american conception of a stiff, formal robot i should have been looking for some hentai-ass love doll shit, demure and kawaii. but i don't think so.)
the gamma method of an outline plot filled in by improv didn't really work here, because jill just can't keep up with angela as an improviser: a more close-written script with story and character beats would have served her better. (she's been great in through-written missa x scenes, for example.) but the sexual performance is, as always with angela, off the charts. jill has no problem keeping up there, because she's a pro.
my complaints about the execution of the premise might well be down to the still-green directing team: the whole thing leading up to the sex seemed awkwardly staged and hastily shot, with little attempt to find good compositions or give the blocking any cohesion. the performances carried it anyway, and it was still quite competently shot compared to some of the true dreck i've slogged through here, but for such a bright sitcommy premise the angles felt oddly dramatic.
performances: 24
cinematography: 18
editing: 16
script: 9
sjw points: 0
total score:
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