Black Tie Nights - Beauty and the Beach

In Beauty and the Beach, the couple put together is a workaholic lawyer and popular surfer, working the “older but sexy woman, younger hunk” angle. Angela Davies (working commercials and ID channel documentary recreation parts these days) is the yummy lawyer often commenting about her age to the award-winning surfer (and moonlighting experimental chef) although he doesn’t seem bothered by it at all. When she makes the first move, he’s all for quick-starting their sexual relationship on the first date’s evening in his home.

That is the coupling synopsis for this episode of Black Tie Nights as the dating service of Cooper and Olivia employs nerdy mathematician, Ryan (Glen Meadows), as their secretary. He actually is the one responsible for Gina (Davies) and Lance’s (Sean Reynolds) date while Olivia bets Cooper she can’t get a guy to “fall in love” (not just have sex) with her immediately. If Cooper can, Ryan will be let go (he’s on a temporary trial basis). Cooper and Ryan have that sexual tension that obviously will probably lead to hot sex down the road. Ryan telling Cooper off (in regards to her inability to develop a serious relationship beyond just fucking folks) amuses Olivia to no end. Cooper eyes some guy she meets at a bar shooting pool, ending up (of course) bedding him at the conclusion of the episode.

But Ryan’s successful pairing of Gina and Lance earns him the job, regardless of Cooper and Olivia’s bet. Gina and Lance go at it right on his kitchen floor while Cooper can’t wait to get this new man she meets in a bed, skipping dinner despite reservations. This episode stretches the limits of softcore a lot more than the previous episodes thanks in part to Davies’ and Tiffany Bolton’s willingness to go fully nude in their sex scenes. Davies’ first scene—with a former lover who was also an attorney, annoyed that their heavy breathing session on his work desk nearly disrupted his written deposition—is a bit of ruffled papers, some kissing, bodies clinched into each other, and close contact. Besides some rather pretentious split screen (which isn’t badly stylized just kind of needless), Davies work with Reynolds in the kitchen is the kind of softcore I like, even if I still felt a bit spoiled that in later years these sort of scenes would go on a bit longer with more dedication to giving those performers more time. I’m a fan of Davies’ performances in the softcore genre, and she rarely ever fails to not arouse me. Her movements, like how she climbs her hand up her neck into her hair while on top of a lover (I’m that kind of guy who likes looking up at the woman) or the way she displays the subtle touches with her face and body, devoted to implying such pleasure. And she’s not afraid of her own body. Thankfully neither is Bolton. In this episode, Bolton has a big scene at the end with the random guy. The way she throws him down, abandoning any notion of a conversation on “getting to know each other” or “let’s pick each other’s brain for some deep connection”, setting the sex scene up in this “let’s just fuck and have some fun” way; Bolton’s performance of it conveys Cooper as a woman looking for gratification in the moment, not some commitment. All that said, if you are that person at the moment (and many are, going through that phase of sexual fever before settling into a pursuit of love and romance), then Cooper will make sense. I admit to enjoying her delight, her taking to this random guy with a sense of joie de vivre. She’s sexy, funny, and carefree in that time of her life before serious adulting sways her away from that lovely naughtiness. And I like that she rids herself of that skirt, forcing those behind the staging of the scene to work harder to make the simulated sex at least look a bit more realistic.

Certainly my favorite episode of the first three.