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Noel Harrison plays a heel who is given an impossible choice by a grandfather who despises him. It's a sturdy premise, but there's little to nothing memorable done with said premise. No real escalation, nothing beyond delaying the inevitable.

One odd choice is to say Harrison's character has six months to decide on whether to act on his grandfather's will, then show local hoods threatening him to pay their bosses back as soon as he can. He asks them to be patient, but how likely were they to just sit around for six months?

We also tend to hear about how rotten Harrison's character is more than we see reasons. He's clearly a weak, selfish man, but his worst act takes place at the very start of the episode. Most of the rest is just floating around. When his girlfriend expresses disgust at his behavior, I just wonder where exactly she'd been.

This story would have worked better cut in half, paired with another vignette. As it is, while Harrison gives a serviceable performance, by the end, you're just glad the whole thing is over.

An 'instructional' video featuring sexpert Ava Cadell hosting a lesson (Ava does not participate) at Juli Nathan's home for Juli, her boyfriend, and two other couples. We see Ava talking with them, and some couples on the street answering questions about kinks, before each couple make use of various areas - bathroom, laundry room, kitchen, closet, gym. Jonathan Simms is the male half of one of the other couples, although I can't seem to add his credit.

The mood in the clothed part of the lesson is pleasant enough, which sets up your expectations for the rest of the film. Other than a bit of voyeurism, the couples don't sexually mingle, which helps lead to a samey feeling, aside from some fun with props (Nathan and beau having fun with a string of pearls; Simms and gal with a feather duster and clothespins).

The most interesting part of the movie is that the couples all have penetrative intercourse, but there are no money shots - maybe to try to keep the "for couples" idea intact.

Cattle mutilations have been a subject of great interest for many years, and I have vague memories of watching this same subject on the original Unsolved Mysteries. The problem is shifting a story from a segment to a full episode. Once you get past some testimonials and many photographs, there seems to be nothing to say.

You get the sense that even the producers realized they were running out of material, because toward the end there's some type of unnecessary fearmongering segment reminding us that people who mutilate cattle could also harm people. I'm aware this can happen, or does happen, but it has no real purpose here beyond betraying a lack of faith in how much interest the main topic will provide.