What Have You Done with Her??

Two lousy Pure Taboo episodes are preserved on DVD as an artifact of poor scriptwriting.

Title scene has a spoiler in its title, which gives away the story's punch line. It's not a spoiler, as predictability is the name of the game here.

The team of Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas, whose work I don't admire, deliver a boring story of obsession. They meet on a street corner as Mike is bringing home bags of groceries, and distracted Q bumps into him. Not looking where she's going, she's saved from being hit by a car by quick-reactions Vegas and thanks him profusely.

Styled scruffy and unappealing, Vegas' character is hard to like from the git-go: he telegraphs the story by being instantly suspicious of Q, while some sort of initial relationship would have made the segment possibly interesting.

Instead she's instantly clinging to him and instantly seems like a stalker, not unlike Glenn Close in her classic "Fatal Attraction". Bringing him presents and immediately rebuffed invitations to keep in touch, the viewer is made to identify with her, crazy as she might be. Vegas's beautiful wife, played by Evelyn Claire, also sympathizes with the strange woman rather than her husband.

But in strictly porn tradition, there's a rush to XXX, as one night Vegas returns home to find Q rather than Claire in the house and she dodges any questions he asks her, notably that one that is the title. He gets very angry but for no logical reason at all she quickly succeeds at seducing him, even though wife Claire is a million times more beautiful than plain-Jane Q.

Rough sex for half an hour results. Ending is supposed to shock the viewer, but instead had me spontaneously defaulting to my frequent Peggy Lee reaction: Is that all there is?

"Gray Area" is merely a punning title. Non-story could be classified as a slice-of-life, and a boring slice at that. Two young blondes are waitressing at a restaurant where Tyler Nixon as a character named Gray is playing the guitar for an audience of zero. It's a slow night obviously, and one waitress (cute Dixie Lynn) tells him she likes his music, so he invites her to go home with him. The other blonde (Goldie Glock) is unenthused, thus ending her brief and time-wasting NonSex role.

Arriving at his very sloppy apartment, Dixie's wondering if she was wise to go with him, but he fast talks her with quite unconvincing dialogue and soon she's stripping and losing her virginity. Once again, we have a stupid ending, both obvious and insulting.