Sunday, October 6, 2013

"Turning Tricks"

Tagline – “In This World, The Women Hold All The Power”
 
“25 words or less” – An inside look at the personal and professional lives of a cutthroat madam and her four equally ruthless working girls at a Manhattan brothel.
 
Full Summary:
Patti Michaels is a non-nonsense, tough as nails madam who runs a very successful brothel from a non-descript four-bedroom apartment in a five-story walk-up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.  Catering to gentlemen from all walks of life, her accessible service offers them four distinct flavors to fulfill their every fantasy. 
 
There’s Becky Martin, a beautiful, tall, skinny model-looking redhead; Cindy Strong a girl next door-type brunette with a trashy edge to her; Natasha Williams, a tall, slender, mischievous African-American and Anastasia Chang, an innocent, petite, short Asian girl who moved to America at an early age.  All four are in their mid-twenties and drop dead gorgeous, all of them will also do whatever it takes to separate their clients from their money.
 
In this first episode, Becky and Patti manage to emasculate a married Wall Street bigwig client while simultaneously getting him to spend much more than he planned.  Becky also has to deal with the complicated relationship at home with her boyfriend who’s feeling increasingly threatened by her professional obligations.
 
Meanwhile, Patti is forced to flex her muscles, literally, when one of Anastasia’s clients gets a little to touchy feely and tries to force her to do things she doesn’t want to do.  This leads Patti to barge into the room amidst calls for help and literally drag the client out of the apartment by his balls.  In one action Patti puts men on notice, you don’t fuck with her or her girls.
 
While this is going on, Cindy is in her bedroom seducing a client out of his life savings.  The ultimate charmer who can make a man do anything, she professes her love to him and convinces him to be her boyfriend.  But of course this isn’t real love, not in a brothel; her ulterior motive is to ensure a steady income by developing a long-term relationship that pays her.
 
As for Natasha, since she lacks a steady client list, Patti forces her to go on the prowl throughout the Upper East Side neighborhood looking for customers.  While out, she stumbles upon the perfect mark at Starbucks, an unemployed waiter who’s busy working on his resume.  Since Natasha will do anything for an extra buck, she ends up stealing the man’s ATM card while he’s in the bathroom back at the apartment and immediately goes on a shopping spree at Bloomingdale’s after he leaves.
 
Later that day, after a chance encounter, Patti ends up creating an alliance with a slick, middle-aged Italian-American named Ralphie who runs an illegal poker parlor in an apartment also on the Upper East Side.  The deal – Patti will provide girls to the men at the poker games while giving Ralphie a piece of the action.  Although Ralphie immediately starts hitting on her and tries his best to consummate their relationship, Patti fends him off by stating that their partnership is strictly business and that’s all.  Only time will tell if that’s really true.  
 
And at the end of yet another long night, Natasha leaves the apartment to go home and realizes she’s being followed by the client that she ripped off earlier in the day.  At first she claims ignorance and refuses to even acknowledge she has ever met him, but he does manage to get her to eventually admit it.  However, Natasha steadfastly denies stealing his ATM card but the man is persistent and refuses to let her go until he pays her back.  What happens next is sure to have long-lasting ramifications for the man, Natasha and Patti’s business. 

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