the whole shebang

scene title:  curious cousin performers:  alexis fawx, christie stevens site:  girls try anal  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.), zombie (ed.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: christie stevens, r: alexis fawx sigh. it's hard to keep trying to find diplomatic ways to couch my increasing exhaustion with the girlsway formula. even at the height of my interest in the site, i never watched every scene in a month, and doing so now just drives home how banal and slipshod the basic structure of a girlsway scene is. introduce characters (throw in a gratuitous shot of the girlsway website if possible), have them to chatter about nothing for about three minutes, have one of them bring up sex to the other's shock and possible intrigue, establish a backstory of sexual disappointment/inexperience, get actually sexual, get the surprised reaction shot that can be plastered on the scene's branding and gifed for tube-site adve...

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scene title:  wrong number, right girl performers:  kali roses, sophia lux site:  webyoung  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.),  fistopher nolan (scr.), zombie (ed.) trailer l: sophia lux, r: kali roses i'd been wondering, since i disliked sophia lux's performance so much in her team skeet scene earlier this month, how she would strike me on the industry-leading girl/girl website. i'm happy to report that with a sympathetic premise, a capable scene partner, competent lighting and photography, and any production values at all she's quite a good performer. her bluntness and tough-girl affect bring genuine merit to a scene where kali roses was expecting to hook up with a boy but misread who she had been texting with, and girlsway's generally less sociopathic approach to their pairings means that her hands-off seduction of kali is surprisingly gentle and respectful. the scene still barely hangs together, becaus...

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.) trailer 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 s...

scene title:  we like girls: cadence and serena performers:  cadence lux, serena blair site:  we like girls ◅ girlsway (gamma) production credits:  bree mills (dir.), clit eastwood (ed.) trailer l: serena blair, r: cadence lux this is the fifth entry in the we like girls project, one of several original series bree mills is producing for adult time, gamma's attempt to create a netflix-style porn destination with high-quality content, a vast licensed back catalog, and entries in every major porn genre. because it's girl/girl it falls under the girlsway umbrella, but traditional girlsway fans are mostly turning their noses up at it: they want the shitty stories and lame acting, they don't want to see the girls talk to the camera or see behind the scenes as the camera crew and makeup artists get them ready. they want fantasy, and they think that seeing the director interact with the performers kills the fantasy. so what do i think? i think it's ...

scene title:  making mommy squirm performers:  anya olsen, dava foxx site:  mommy's girl  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  craven moorehead (dir.), stratman90 (scr.) trailer l: dava foxx, r: anya olsen it's possible i'm just too jaded and grumpy to appreciate anything anymore, or maybe we've hit a singularly uninspired stretch of the month's releases. either way, this is the least engaging mommy's girl scene so far this month, and mommy's girl is for my money consistently the least engaging girlsway brand. some of that is due to the performances. anya olsen, who i don't recall ever having encountered before, is certainly having fun with her role, sliding from being shocked over finding out that her stepmother watches stepmom-stepdaughter porn to teasing her into sexual contact with campy glee; but once dava relents they have nowhere else to push the characters and just fall back on what the girlsway superfans call "mommy ta...

scene title:  left at the altar performers:  tiffany watson, kira noir site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.),  zombie (ed.), metalhead42 (scr.) trailer l: kira noir, r: tiffany watson girlsway is the most prolific site among those i review here, so it's probably inevitable that there's a certain bored familiarity in my approach to their scenes. i know what to expect, especially from the last several scenes shot by stills by alan toward the end of 2018, and they're almost never going to surprise me anymore. that's even more true with this scene, the second kira noir/tiffany watson pairing to run on girlsway in early 2019, which is unusual enough to be worthy of comment. their first pairing, "getting hot in here," was released after both scenes had been shot, so this isn't in response to fan demand. presumably it was about availability on the day; either way, they work well enough together that you could imagine...

scene title:  maid for each other: nasty cleaning crew performers:  kenzie reeves, alina lopez, mackenzie moss site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  casey calvert & eli cross (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: alina lopez, c: kenzie reeves, r: mackenzie moss newcomer mackenzie moss has her second girl/girl scene and girlsway debut here. in a scene with such strong performers as sex goblin kenzie reeves and natural domme alina lopez, there's a possibility that she could be overshadowed, but she holds her own without ever taking charge of the scene the way alina and kenzie trade off doing. the premise, that the three of them are a maid cleaning service hired by london river (in the same house where she and alina cavorted in "fam fiction," also directed by casey and eli, an indication of just crowded the girlsway shooting schedule is), is thin and unconvincing; london as the demanding, bitchy homeowner gives the most believable p...

scene title:  mother's playdate performers:  dana vespoli, katie morgan site:  moms on moms  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: katie morgan, r: dana vespoli it turns out the old dog of girlsway does still have some new tricks up its sleeve. moms on moms, the spinoff brand of mommy's girl that has been responsible for a tempest in a teapot among the girlsway members (who screamed bloody murder when the monthly mommy's girl count was reduced by one to make room for it) is easy for someone like me who doesn't share the pseudo-incest fetish to dismiss as more of the same, just another a work-relief program for milf-category performers: but at least this pairing, the second ever, brought in a ringer who hasn't been on mommy's girl a thousand times already, and so elevated the standard. dana vespoli seems more engaged and even to be having more fun than i've seen her in quite some t...

scene title:  sapphic curse of the crystal skull performers:  adriana chechik, kissa sins site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.) trailer l: adriana chechik, r: kissa sins i have complained so much about stills by alan's day-to-day girlsway work that i may have given the impression that i don't think he could be a competent director. but that's not true; it's just that on the usual schedule he maintained of two scenes per day over the past couple of years, he took a lot of shortcuts and attempted very little quality control. when he was working on more ambitious projects, like the features that first made girlsway a name to be reckoned with in the industry, but which had more recently slowed to a trickle as the engagement metrics failed to support them, he could produce work at least as good as the average shitty tv show. here, he uses a combination of drone footage over desert landscapes, shots of his stars hiking in t...

scene title:  mastur-baiting mommy performers:  emma hix, dee williams site:  mommy's girl  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  craven moorehead (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: emma hix, r: dee williams the seventh girlsway scene i've reviewed for the month of april, and the third director to be called in as a replacement for stills by alan. craven moorehead has been a gamma contractor for a while now: he's filled in when alan couldn't maintain the onerous schedule throughout 2018, and he's the main director for pure taboo. not that this is shot anything like a pure taboo scene: it's still the pretty standard girlsway setup, but with a better eye and a cooler, less oversaturated color palette. dee in particular is highly flushed by the end of the scene, but rather than glowing bright red, as she would have under stills by alan's camera, she's just a delicate rose color. the subdued colors are suited to a scene that take...

scene title:  black sheep cousins performers:  kendra spade, eliza ibarra site:  webyoung  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.), zombie (ed.) ossienelson4 (scr.) trailer l: kendra spade, r: eliza ibarra if, as i hope i've made clear i wish to be the case, these last few scenes directed by stills by alan late last year are the last i ever see from him, then it's appropriate that at least one of them show off how terribly unimaginative he could be as a director. the blandness, stupidity, and tediousness of this scene should be remembered as his hallmarks, just as much as the novelty of his work as it first appeared back in 2015-2016 (when bree mills was still much more directly involved in girlsway). that blandness, stupidity, and tediousness can only partly be laid at the feet of the performers, both of whom i've seen better work from but who did not appear to be trying terribly hard on the day of this shoot. they'...

scene title:  maid for each other: office cleaning performers:  scarlett sage, dee williams site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  casey calvert & eli cross (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: dee williams, r: scarlett sage the second casey calvert/eli cross directorial effort to be posted by girlsway works a lot better for me than the first. part of that is that it's an office setting, and the relationship is employer/employee rather than stepmother/stepdaughter, part of it is that the script is better: more natural and amusing and featuring a seduction rather than just "let's fuck." and finally part of it is also that the directing is better and more fluid. not that it's terribly distinct from the girlsway mold established by stills by alan. the colors are oversaturated, especially in the reds (a great way to highlight a pale woman's sexual flush, but ugly and cheap otherwise), the establishing shots are shoddy (you don'...

scene title:  private yoga instructor performers:  serena blair, kali roses site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.), fistopher nolan (scr.) trailer l: serena blair, r: kali roses i've been looking forward to this scene in the schedule, because serena blair is always entertaining: she's one of the few porn actresses who has to improvise dialogue who seems to have actually absorbed the tenets of improv, always rolling with whatever her scene partner does and fleshing out her character or the situation with little quips and bits of business. she's also one of the top five all-time girl/girl performers in terms of sexual performance, which never hurts. this scenario, sadly, doesn't give her as much room to play as some others, and while kali roses is a perfectly good porn performer she's rather more straightforward as an actress, leaning on the smoky timbre of her voice as an index to sensuality rather than developing muc...

scene title:  fam fiction performers:  alina lopez, london river site:  mommy's girl  ◅  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  casey calvert & eli cross (dir.), midnight (scr.) trailer l: london river, r: alina lopez i think i've mentioned here before that i'm skeptical at best of the stepmother-stepdaughter genre of girl/girl porn. not that incest or pseudo-incest isn't a standard and even classic subgenre in the erotic canon; but the unresolvable tension in the internet era between catering to the fantasies of mommy-daughter fetishists and staying on the right side of the united states penal code (not to mention the discomfort of many performers and producers with the topic) makes for awkward and half-baked fantasies that rarely lean into the cultural taboo, have no time to develop believable character relations, and has been so overproduced for the last half-decade that there are never going to be any new or unexpected approaches to t...

scene title:  the case of the mysterious panties performers:  kenna james, riley reid site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  stills by alan (dir.), zombie (ed.), ravefire63 (scr.) trailer l: kenna james, r: riley reid genre parody is such an easy way to make porn with a modicum of intelligence, it's surprising that there isn't more of it. perhaps the modicum of intelligence is the issue. the scene opens with riley reid sitting in an almost totally dark office except for convenient bars of light on her face and where the client will sit in the chair opposite, doing a bad philip marlowe impression in voiceover as kenna james walks in, distraught because her wife may be cheating on her. riley takes the case after being promised double. the budgets under which porn operates are obvious when the cheating wife she photos on a stakeout is clearly also kenna james (although the woman she's cheating with is a cameoing eliza ibarra). kenna is prese...

scene title:  showcase: emily willis performers:  scarlett sage, emily willis site:  girlsway (gamma) production credits:  eli cross (dir.), angelo poirier (ed.) emily willis (scr.) trailer l: emily willis, r: scarlett sage four days into this review challenge, i finally meet up with girlsway, the biggest and most successful girl/girl brand of the decade. of course i have lots of history with girlsway and plenty of opinions about it. but i'm trying to take each scene as it comes, without loading preconceptions onto it. that's hard to do here, because the emily willis and scarlett sage episode of we like girls isn't even two months old, and it was one of the most adorable scenes i've ever seen in my life. if this doesn't live up to it, blame the restrictions of scenario porn, which keep scarlett and emily from being as unaffectedly natural and conversational with each other as they are when they don't have to pretend to be other people. it's...