The Business – Season One
Picture:
C Sound: C+ Extras: C- Film: C
There
used to be a chic and appeal to the XXX industry, but as soon as VCRs overtook
the industry in the 1980s, they kept making tons of cash, but it was more
mechanical than ever. That amateur
releases and such material all over the Internet (including the free items
alone, including XXX content on personal sights and 24-hour webcams in
bedrooms), the mysterious has become the very, very boring. Despite this, The Business – Season One tries to be a comedy about one XXX
production company and it is a wreck.
Talk
about too much, too little, too late.
IFC produces the show and the female lead (Kathleen Robertson) is an
employee of IFC (yawn) who is persuaded to quit and work at the XXX “Vic’s
Flicks” sex tape producer. Vic (Rob
Deleeuw) is predictably a fat pig who is fighting the POC crowd and trying to
survive in a highly competitive business, but this very rarely rings true and
the result is a one-joke disaster. The
dialogue is insulting and never works.
What were they thinking? Who
cares!
The
letterboxed 1.78 X 1 image is weak in color, detail, depth and is pale
throughout, even if it is consistently so.
Add the shaky camerawork that we get too often and this is not easy to
sit through. The Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo has no surrounds and is not recorded that well throughout to begin
with. Extras include a preview for the
next season, a “gagisode” of the show and a featurette about the show.
- Nicholas Sheffo
