Bliss | |
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Starring |
Cara Pifko Kelly Ricard Andrew Tarbet Allen Altman Thea Gill |
Country of origin | Canada |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 24 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 min (including commercials) |
Release | |
Original network | Showcase |
Original release | March 21, 2002 – April 4, 2004 |
Bliss is a Canadian-produced, half-hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica. The series ran from 2002 to 2004.
The format of the show—short, sensual vignettes adapted for television—aired on Oxygen in the United States (though heavily edited for American audiences) and Showcase, TMN and Movie Central in Canada. Reruns currently airing on US After Dark, and with Spanish dubbing on Telelatino Network (TLN) as "Cuentos Prohibidos" (roughly translates as "Forbidden Tales") in Canada. The series is distributed by Oasis International in Toronto.
This Showcase Original Series explores erotic desires, passions and fantasies of women from a female perspective, with the episodes themselves directed and written by women.
1. Valentine's Day in Jail A woman falls in love with an inmate after she is assigned by her company to commission an article written by him.
2. Six Days A rugged country housewife has a torrid affair with a hired ranch hand after her husband is hospitalized after an injury.
3. Guys and Dolls A business woman meets a mysterious business man at a bar with the intentions of a no strings attached sexual fling. Their relationship becomes too close for comfort when they realize they have more in common professionally than merely sexually.
4. The Value of X A soon to be high school graduate experiments with sexuality and gender expression.
5. Voice A woman begins having paranormal experiences after being in a relationship with a married man. She becomes haunted by the apparition of his current wife. The tables are turned when she begins yearning for the touch of his wife than the actual arms of the married man she loves.
6. Leaper A struggling writer weighed down with depression is attacked by a disturbed and helpless young girl. The writer is in shock as she meets the lover of the frightened girl unbeknownst to the writer at the time of meeting. The writer and the young girl's older lover engage in a lesbian's sexual encounter.
7. The Footpath of Pink Roses A young woman who is into MMA-style self-defense is taken for a loop when her sexual desires take a turn for the primal. Her vanilla boyfriend is conflicted about her desires after she asks him to "force" her to make love to him and suggests they forget it ever happened. She meets a handsome self-defense teacher who helps her express her inner desires to be passionately ravaged by the man of her choosing.