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kutsuwamushiNetflix keeps trying to get me to watch Bonding. So I did, for about ten minutes.
The premise is that a graduate student in New York who works as a dominatrix needs an assistant and hires her gay best friend. The gay best friend appears to be the primary viewpoint character - so it's set up a bit like other stories in which the mundane protagonist falls into an extraordinary world.
Only Harry Potter was much more convincing.
The show is bad.
The actress is entirely unconvincing - even in the trailer, she comes across as a young woman play-acting what she thinks a dominatrix is like instead of a ... dominatrix. You get the sense that she was cast by people who didn't know what they were looking for.
There's something about the way she's framed and styled as well. It just reads as dress-up, kind of like a model in an ad for a sex shop. She's not shot in a way that gives her power. And yeah, it's a comedy and not a porn, you're not watching to experience being dominated by her, but it just cuts out the believability.
I looked up the actress and apparently she's been in other things where her performance was good? So, I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm not sure how much is her performance, and how much is the writing, which is terrible.
(There is a truly awful scene where she's late for class. We get a minute or so of her in this "grad" class, which is written like an undergrad's conception of what a grad class is like.)
The premise is that a graduate student in New York who works as a dominatrix needs an assistant and hires her gay best friend. The gay best friend appears to be the primary viewpoint character - so it's set up a bit like other stories in which the mundane protagonist falls into an extraordinary world.
Only Harry Potter was much more convincing.
The show is bad.
The actress is entirely unconvincing - even in the trailer, she comes across as a young woman play-acting what she thinks a dominatrix is like instead of a ... dominatrix. You get the sense that she was cast by people who didn't know what they were looking for.
There's something about the way she's framed and styled as well. It just reads as dress-up, kind of like a model in an ad for a sex shop. She's not shot in a way that gives her power. And yeah, it's a comedy and not a porn, you're not watching to experience being dominated by her, but it just cuts out the believability.
I looked up the actress and apparently she's been in other things where her performance was good? So, I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm not sure how much is her performance, and how much is the writing, which is terrible.
(There is a truly awful scene where she's late for class. We get a minute or so of her in this "grad" class, which is written like an undergrad's conception of what a grad class is like.)
