Bliss

Our Rating: L Factor: Major lesbian content Short Take: Erotic tv series written, produced, directed, and created for women by women. Alternate Titles:
Year: 2002 Duration: 30 min Language: Canada/English MPAA: Not Rated	Director: Lyne Charlebois, Stacey Stewart Curtis Writer: Cathleen Bond, Janis Cole Starring:

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This erotic series aired on Showcase in Canada and the Oxygen channel in the US. It is written, produced, directed, and created for women by women, and each softcore episode is heavy on story, light on frontal exposed flesh, but with very hot love scenes. Here are the episodes of interest to us:

104 The Value of X 
Air date: March 21, 2002
This episode examines a sexual outlet not often seen on film. Jeanette (Tara Spencer-Nairn) and Zachary (Jason MacDonald) are both lgbt high school students, and J is in love with her best friend Marnie (Rachelle Lefevre, Head in the Clouds), who doesn’t feel the same way. J and Z decide to experiment, making out while Z wears lipstick, pretending the other is a member of the same sex. Eventually J takes Z from behind. When they can’t have the real object of their desires, the two friends try a gender bending sexual fantasy world.

105 Voice 
Air date: March 28, 2003
Ally (Mikela J. Mikael) finds out that her boyfriend Tyler (David Lovgren) is married, and his wife (Veronika Hurnik) begins to haunt her. When the two women finally meet, they make love in a cheap hotel room, both freeing themselves from any hold Tyler has on either of them. (Also includes het sex scenes.)

106 Leaper 
Air date: April 4, 2002
Julia (Michelle Lipper) runs across a homeless woman (Millie Tresierra) who tries to kiss her. Dionne (Paule Ducharme, Head in the Clouds) is a bystander and takes the opportunity to invite Julia up to her apartment. This is late night tv, so Dionne seduces her into a night of passion … before Julia figures out the connection between Dionne and the street person.

202 Nina’s Muse 
Air date: February 14, 2003
Nina (Thea Gill, Queer as Folk, Dante’s Cove), a straight woman, secretly watches and photographs her gay neighbor (Troy Ruptash) having sex with a string of lovers in the apartment across the street. She is seduced by the idea of sex without attachment and goes so far as to try to meet him on the other side of a glory hole in a nearby park men’s restroom. When he catches her, they go back to her apartment, where he gives her lessons in thinking with your dick.

204 The Marvellon 
Air date: February 28, 2003
Isabel (Lynda Boyd) runs an alteration shop, and one day a young butch woman (Lauren Evans) comes in with a suit she needs fitted for her drag show. She flirts with Isabel, an older, very feminine lesbian, and during the fitting the next day, they kiss. When her friend and ex Lisa (Liliana Komorowska) walks in and sees them, she tells Isabel, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this. We date real women.’

Isabel seeks the young woman out at the club that night and then enjoys a strap on for the first time. She is nervous about it, but later she dresses up in a suit as well, experimenting with what that feels like. (AB)