Season 1: Episode 1 – “The Crush”
Kiss Her I’m Famous follows two down-and-out best friends as they look for fame in all the wrong places. Their plan? A celebrity sex tape to catapult the into the limelight.
created by Rolla Selbak (Three Veils, Missing Maya) and starring Tracy Ryerson (The Real L-Word) and Ilea Matthews
Warning – some spoilers and candid thoughts ahead in our recapaview for episode 1
Episode 1 – recapaview
So, the tag line for the series is, “Kiss Her I’m Famous follows two down-and-out best friends as they look for fame in all the wrong places. Their plan? A celebrity sex tape to catapult them into the limelight.”
Sex tapes? Fame? Girls? This is either going to be awesome or go down in a blaze of glory.
The series starts off with an interesting use of split screen and, well, a shot of a butt wearing a lacy black thong. Quite a tone setting shot. Which so totally set me up for the quick bait and switch pulled when the scene shifts to an entertainment talk show. Nice rug pull, put me on the edge of my seat in a “What the What just happened?” and that meant now I was watching things closely, verrrrry close.
Enter our two main protagonists, Jen and Mandy (and a cameo by Twizzlers which makes me want to start a poll, how many of you have ever done THAT with Twizzlers). They are discussing Jen’s boyfriend who is attending a film festival and has one of my favorite lines from the episode and a thought that may be an inside tongue-in-cheek nod to the changing world of entertainment and webseries, “Since when does posting a stupid video on YouTube get you into a film festival?” (Although “What if I douse my breasts in acne, will that get me 20 million dollars?” is a close second for favorite quote. Allllthough, “What do you mean not adventurous, does she want you to lick her crack while zip-lining?” has a special place in my heart too.)
We find out that in addition to some mad hacking skills displayed by Mandy, she is hacking into an account for Jen, Mandy’s girlfriend recently broke up with her. Based on what Jen finds in the hacked email, she is determined to create a plan, a plan which Mandy begs her not to create (hmm, it seems Mandy might not be very adventurous after all). Add in the surprise announcement that Jen is moving in with Mandy for a little bit, and, well, things seem to be on track for some fun chaos.
Looking forward to Episode 2 – now I am off to see if I can get #buttpimple trending 😮
jojo
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Ew! Lecherously grinning old man and half-naked young woman doing the bump and grind quickly – not quickly enough, my eyes, my eyes! – segues into some kind of entertainment news segment about a sex tape. Really, do American politicians not watch The Good Wife? Sexcapades with nubile young ladies at tax payers expense will land you in hot water, especially if you’re stupid enough to make a video of it.
Oh, and now some fool TV exec has apparently decided to throw twenty million dollars at the nubile young French lady so she can front a reality TV show. I know this is only fiction, but it’s already triggered my ‘reality TV is the work of the devil’ response; possibly not the best attitude to have when reviewing this show.
Fortunately, we quickly leave the TV studio and talk of bottom pimples and are introduced to our two main characters: Mandy, the sensible one, and Jen the crazy, sticks food up her nose, one. As crazy as Jen may be – never accept food from this woman – she finds the idea of the nubile young French woman receiving a twenty million dollar contract for appearing on a sex tape ludicrous, so she’s not that crazy, but then again she does want to know what it’ll take for her to score a similar deal, so three lucid points have been deducted from her score.
It turns out that Mandy is trying to hack Jen’s boyfriend’s e-mail account, so she’s obviously been infected by the crazy, but is a little off her game because her girlfriend dumped her for not being adventurous enough in bed. Cue some funny lines from Jen, who seems to have cornered the market on funny lines so far this episode, and after a little encouragement Mandy has gained access to Josh’s (the boyfriend) e-mails.
It turns out that Josh, who’s in Cannes for the film festival, has sent incriminating and far-too-much-flesh-on-display pictures of himself to someone called ‘sophiebaby’ in advance of a hotel hook-up. Considering that the man’s head appears to be a ball of fur I would have thought most people would have been relieved to have an excuse to dump him, but Jen takes exception to his cheating ways and want to come up with a plan. You get a feeling of how badly her plans usually work out by Mandy’s reaction, which is the opposite of enthusiastic, even before Jen has voiced her intention of moving in and sleeping in the nude.
Then, just as the story has caught my attention, the episode ends, and I’m left to curse the trend of far-too-short-web-series-episodes.
ralst
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