![]() He had a bad attitude from the start and he's either madly in love with Belle, or just an ass. It started out with she and Duncan at Ben's pub on the South Side. But the meat of the episode came a few minutes later when Belle was out with her new boyfriend, Duncan, and ran into 'James' while he was out to dinner with his wife.Įverything that could have gone wrong on Belle's date did go wrong. 'Ulga' and 'James' went at their role play for the first 10 minutes of the show and the result was as successful as can be imagined, and they laughed and broke character and had some fun drinking shaken martinis. 'James' was played by an overstuffed man named 'Stewart' who could only be confused with the Bond of Never Say Never Again, Sean Connery's terrible, final contribution to the Bond title. Belle walked on eggshells as she tried to get her accents right while reciting her scripted dialog as Russian spy 'Ulga.' Her strange relationship with client 'James' was hilarious and took the pressure off of last week's downer episode. They had Piper stare down the chamber of a loaded gun and shoot directly at the camera just as Bond does, but the rest of the charade was cloaked in slip-ups, and over-the-top dialogue. This way you can get the build up of the drama, while being able to see the light hearted comic intentions of the show itself." Episode 6" played off the secret agent thing with the same aloofness that follows most Bond spoofs. If society could accept sex and people in her profession, would she be forced to make this choice?Įach episode is kept to 22 minutes and the season is only 8 episodes long, thus allowing a person to watch a season in an evenings time. Piper holds her own very well in this duel role, while being able to show the melencholy and disconnect that occurs in having a lifestyle that requires such a sacrifice. The old addage "You can run but you can't hide" comes to mind at these points. The drama in this show only comes in when Belle/Hannah has to deal with her personal life outside of her chose profession. The importance is the humor, which takes place mainly while she's working. Not th at easy for this much maligned profession. Piper gives an erotic, humorous performance, while making as care about. (Let's face it, it was bought from the British market already made.) Sex,humor, and minimal production cost, all the things we look for from Showtime. The show itself has all the ear marks of a Showtime "Original". After all, you can't pull off smart, sexy, high priced hooker and not be intelligent? Billie Piper not only shows she can act but that she is intelligent as well. While not one to resort to text speak - OMG! (Put a little valley in their, too, if you wish.) For those of you who blew off Billie Piper as a pop star wannabe when she was cast as Rose Tyler in the revamped Doctor Who and maybe even blew off her success in that role to who she had to act against, think again. Included here are all eight episodes of the series' first season. SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL was already a smash-hit in England before it surfaced on the airwaves of Canada's Showcase and America's Showtime, but now this intoxicating, sometimes funny, always sexy drama can be enjoyed internationally. Not unlike the title character of ALFIE, Belle playfully breaks the fourth wall to constantly engage the viewer in a stylistic device that echoes the series' inspiration, a real-life blog written by a high-class prostitute named Belle de Jour. But when facing such dilemmas as whether to ditch an underwhelming john for the rare opportunity of making a sex fantasy come true, or discovering a soft spot for a sweet and wonderful client, it tends to become increasingly difficult to separate business from pleasure and pleasure from heartache. On the whole, Belle is a consummate professional, and her unusual lifestyle requires her to be coy with those who don't know how she truly earns her living. There's the personal on one side, the professional on the other, and never the twain shall meet, right? Well, for now at least. And she's just as much "working girl" as she is "hooker with a heart of gold." Meet Belle, (DOCTOR WHO's Billie Piper), an expensive London call girl who's willing to take viewers on an intimate tour through her daily life.
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