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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
Wet Palms: Season One, Episodes 7-9
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Mark Hovanec. Edited and directed by
Matthew Moore. Written by Jack Shamama and
Michael Stabile. Videography by Mr. Pam. Music by
Fave Rave, Rocco McKay, and Gabriel
Knight. Starring Rod Barry, Brad Benton, Marcus
Iron, Gabriel Knight, Ethan Marc, Gus Mattox, Jason
Ridge, Sister Roma, Rob Romoni, Peter Ross, Jason
Sechrest, Michael Soldier, Zak Spears, Bret Wolfe,
Nick Capra, Jason
Crew, Dante Fox, Drew Peters, and others.
How to order
This three-disc boxed set concludes the first "season" of
Wet Palms, Jet Set's groundbreaking experiment in hardcore soap opera. As in preceding installments, the humor sometimes misfires, and the intricately
demented story isn't always fun. But on the whole,
Wet Palms is a class act-- well-made, entertaining, and at times irresistibly hot.
In episodes 1-3, the sex scenes were brief and incidental to the story; in episodes 4-6, the story sometimes stalled while fully developed sex scenes played themselves out. Here the sex (two scenes per episode)
has been pared down to fit the narrative, but viewers are offered the option of watching full-length alternate edits. All the sex is one-on-one, but the actors are well matched, and the longer, more detailed versions of
their encounters emit surprising blasts of steam. In the full-length edit of his blistering interlude with Nick Capra, pool boy Peter Ross even gets a second, juicier cumshot.
The story remains a skein of intrigue involving drugs, underwear models, errant boyfriends, warring brothers, the publishing business, megalomania, paternity, hidden identity, blackmail, and, above all, ownership of
a gay residential and resort hotel, Wet Palms-- in reality the San Vicente Inn. The cast is generally first rate, if sometimes half a mile over the top. In Episodes 7-9, standout additions include Ross, Marcus Iron, and
mop-haired Sister Roma in the non-sexual role of Mona Lott, a Wet Palms housekeeper recently sprung from the Betty Ford Clinic.
The season finale unfolds at L.A.'s Abbey Bar, the site of
Jett Setter magazine's annual Man of the Year bash, where one major character is arrested and a second is apparently killed-- a double whammy guaranteed
to whet viewers' appetites for Wet Palms, Season
Two.
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