Released | Sep 02nd, 2021 |
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Running Time | 205 Min. |
Director | Casey Calvert |
Company | Lust Cinema |
Cast | Derrick Pierce, Ryan Driller, Ana Foxxx, Casey Calvert, Kira Noir, Victoria Voxxx, Dante Colle, Cam Damage |
Non-Sex Roles | Others |
Critical Rating | AAAA |
Genres | Drama, Polyamory, Marquee |
Cam Damage is having trouble reading her lines as galpal Victoria Voxxx cues her from behind the halo light. "I think you're trying too hard. That's not really how guys flirt with girls."
"Like you'd know anything about that?"
"I was a fucking bartender."
"Why can't we just break up like normal people?"
"Because you can't afford a place of your own. Let's run it again."
Later, after Voxxx finishes her set at a coffeehouse ("This song is about growing up in Denver"), a guy offers to buy her a drink. She silently plunks her tip jar in front of him and he throws in a bill. At the same time, Damage hooks up with Dante Colle, and their post-fuck giggling in the bedroom discomforts Voxxx when she gets home: "I thought your friend Taylor was a girl." When Damage says they're going to split for drinks, Voxxx snaps, "Were you even going to change the fucking sheets?" Colle retreats as Voxxx glares daggers at Damage, saying, "I'm okay with you having sex here, I'm just not sure I'm comfortable having a man in my bed"—but when Damage storms out, Voxxx follows her, apologizing: "That's not what I meant. I'm sorry."
The next morning, Casey Calvert wakes up, gets out of bed with a still-sleeping Ana Foxxx, and chats over coffee with Derrick Pierce. "I'm thinking of having a date night with Abby for her birthday. Do you want to come?"
Pierce is ambivalent: "Do I?"
Calvert heads off to work and, after getting a text message, hooks up with Ryan Driller that night. They dislike the videogame they play afterwards ("There are too many buttons on this thing") and over supper Driller complains about his kid not liking sushi. ("'It's raw fish, dad.' Maybe she'll get over it when she's a teenager.") The tables turn when Driller tells her, "Your monthly treat should already be in your account," and she replies, "Thank you, daddy."
The next morning at breakfast, Pierce complains about adapting a book into a screenplay ("There are 19 lines of dialogue in the whole book!") as Foxxx and Calvert commiserate ("You can't make people's thoughts into dialogue") while across town Voxxx helps new neighbor Kira Noir unload her moving truck. Noir thanks Voxxx with a pizza and they talk about previous relationships. "We were trying the open relationship thing," Noir says. "He was okay with me fucking other guys, but girls made him jealous."
Voxxx asks, casually, "How long ago did you guys break up?"
"Nine days."
Calvert and Foxxx's birthday date night gets enlivened by the introduction of April O'Neil. ("Are you my present?" "I am if you want me to be.") The birthday celebration continues from the bar into the bedroom, and driving home, Foxxx tells Calvert that she had a really great time tonight, without Pierce, and that she and Calvert "make a really great team."
Voxxx invites Noir to Calvert's reading and book signing, and Calvert overcomes her stage fright ("I have a pimple. I can't do this.") and pulls it off. Calvert celebrates the successful signing with Pierce and Foxxx, in bed. But a few days later, when Calvert walks in on a full-on jealousy argument between Foxxx and Pierce, Foxxx tells Calvert, "I might be in love with you." Calvert leaves, the problem(s) unresolved, and goes to her car, weeping behind the wheel.
Noir introduces Voxxx to her ex-boyfriend, a session musician. Voxxx says she's seen him on stage and belts a bit of a song. The boyfriend, impressed, invites her to sing with him. "Don’t fuck with me," Voxxx demurs. "Singing is all I ever wanted to do." Voxxx, newly cordial with Damage, celebrates her own possible singing gig and Damage's possible acting gig with a beer and a role-play fuck with Damage donning a strap-on. When a text from the boyfriend invites Voxxx to a rehearsal ("Bring your vocal cords") she checks with Noir first. Noir is okay with it. ("You're fine. Take advantage: Make him fall in love with you, break his heart. It'll be funny ... but don't sleep with him [if you're not serious] because he will fall in love immediately. That's kind of his thing.") But Voxxx tells Noir she doesn't do men, leading to an afternoon of getting-to-know-you that ends up in bed. Calvert patches things up with Foxxx and Pierce before heading off to work on a new book, leaving things open, before driving off into her future.
Like a mainstream soap opera, Primary Season 2 changes themes and interleaves stories as it focuses on characters and situations, with the added attraction of explicit sex scenes. Atmospheric photography and real locations (instead of the same five location houses) add value.