This was a softcore TV series that originally aired for one season in 2000. Shauna O’Brien starred as Lady Chatterley, but unlike the classic book of her namesake, this takes place in modern-day America. It’s unclear from the episodes exactly what Lady Chatterley does, Wikipedia describes her as “a land broker by day and at night a sexual psychiatrist to her friends and exclusive clients inside her secluded mansion.” 

So there’s the premise of the show, Lady Chatterley entertains various guests in her mansion, some who spend the night, and helps them with various relationship and sexual problems. During its 15-episode run, several veteran softcore performers made appearances on the show.

Written by R. Lord and directed by George Ayvas, this episode stars Michelle Von Flotow as Debbie, a magazine editor. She recently began a relationship with a man named David (Randy Mann), a writer whom Lady Chatterley introduced her to. While staying with Lady Chatterley for a few days, David tells the ladies that his brother Barry is coming to visit the next day, and when he shows them a picture, Debbie looks disturbed. When David leaves the room, Debbie reveals that she recognizes Barry as a man whom she met and had a one-night stand with two years earlier. She asks Lady Chatterley if she should tell David now, but Lady Chatterley says that it’s “too early” in the relationship to reveal something like that.

WTF?!?

That’s a terrible answer. Of course she should tell David immediately, to prove she’s not hiding anything. It’s not like she actually did anything wrong since she didn’t know David at the time. Covering it up makes it worse!

But Debbie listens to Lady Chatterley and we cut to the next day, where the two ladies are joined by Debbie’s best friend Karen (Julianna Sterling) who’s there for moral support. When David comes in with Barry (David Usher) and introduces everyone, Barry is shocked to see Debbie but pretends he doesn’t know her.

And isn’t that a lucky break for Debbie? How was she to know that he wouldn’t immediately say something? This is why the lying was a bad plan.

Anyway, it turns out David loves to cook and is making the meal that night. While he goes to the kitchen, Debbie and Barry argue with each other over what happened, with each of them blaming the other for why they never saw each other again after that one night stand. But neither wants to say anything to David. During dinner, Lady Chatterley brings up a fake scenario from her past, claiming she once lost a relationship when the man she was seeing found out that she’d slept with a friend of hers before they met. This sparks a debate during which Debbie eventually blurts out the truth about her and Barry.

David is upset and isn’t sure he can handle it. Eventually, Lady Chatterley manages to help David calm down and get over it, and he and Debbie stay together. Meanwhile, Barry and Karen end up hooking up, and Lady Chatterley watches them have sex before joining them to make a threesome. So all’s well that ends well.

It’s a good episode, although I think the drama was manufactured by the initial decision to hide the truth from David, but it mostly worked. In terms of acting, the only weak link was Julianna Sterling, she wasn’t very convincing when reciting dialog. I’m not even sure why her character was there, they could have left her out and just had Barry hook up with Lady Chatterley by herself in the end.

In addition to that sex scene, there are three others. Two between Michelle von Flotow and Randy Mann and one between Flotow and David Usher. Michelle is one of my favorite softcore actresses of the era, so her scenes are always a treat.

Chacebook rating: FOUR STARS

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