KEHLI O’BYRNE 

Written by D.B. Brooks & Karen O’Hara and directed by Julie Jordan.

In this episode, Cooper and Olivia interview assistants for their new agency. Cooper just wants a hot guy in the office, but Olivia wants someone qualified to do the job, so they hire an older woman named Gladys (Patricia Touceda).

Glenn Meadows makes his first appearance on the series as Ryan, the ladies’ first male client. He’s a somewhat nerdy math professor from Minnesota who moved to California to work on a book on game theory and hopes to meet someone but hasn’t had any luck in the 3 months he’s been there.

They set him up with soap opera star Andrea (Kehli O’Byrne), who has a hard time finding a man who is interested in her as a person and not just because she’s a famous actress. The episode jumps ahead to one week after the date; the ladies interview Andrea, who says the date went very well. They had dinner at a pizzeria, and then she took him back to her place for sex, all of which we see in flashbacks. So this makes their first assignment a success.

In the end, the ladies have to fire Gladys for sexually harassing a male client (Shankura Collinson).

There are only two complete sex scenes in this episode. Hendra has a scene with Paul Medrano, who plays Cooper’s ex, Carl, who she hooks up with in the back of a limo. The scene between Meadows and O’Bryne is hot due to how different it is from the norm. She handcuffs him to her bed on his back, pours hot candle wax on his chest, then has sex with him cowgirl-position. Femdom fans, like myself, will like this one.

There’s also a brief scene between O’Byrne and Jesse Brune, who plays Bruce, a man Andrea once dated. We see them having sex on a desk, both naked, in a brief flashback scene.  Hendra also has two other sex scenes, one with Daniel Spangler and one with Onnik Hovanessi, who play men who are interviewing for the assistant job. Cooper imagines having sex with each one during their interviews; both scenes are brief, with little nudity (Hendra getting topless).

There’s also a scene with Dylan Jordan, another job applicant, where Cooper imagines that he’s a stripper who dances for them in a speedo while Olivia and Cooper strip down to their lingerie to dance with him, but there’s no nudity.

I would have cut some or all of those extra scenes in favor of giving us a third complete sex scene. Otherwise, this was a pretty good episode. Chacebook rating: FOUR STARS

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