Mistresses

2013

Seasons & Episodes

  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

EP12 Back to the Start Sep 05, 2016

EP13 The Show Must Go On Sep 06, 2016

7.1| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life—both professional and personal—simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josselyn, couldn't be more different—living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their common best friend, April, a recent widow and mother of two, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward, with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen, a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.

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Reviews

ThiefHott Too much of everything
Pluskylang Great Film overall
Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict
Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Noirpanthere The most shitty show me I have watched recently))) absolutely stupid dialogs and predictable plot. Heroes behave sooo stupid! I cant even say who is the most debilish. Analitic with instantly guilty face who has no idea about psychology or inadequate monkey looking like girl committing the same inadequate feats? What age group has it been made for?)) Teenagers? Or maybe that special groups who prefer watching reality shows with young degenerates? I just wonder who writes positive remarks? Some people compare this show with Sex in the city, some people compare with Desperate housewives... Im sorry))) but are you serious?! It's nonsense. Pathetic and predictable. The 6th ep of the 1st season will be the last for me. Thanks god I'm free!
Anastasia Kuznetsova It has been so long since we had anything relevant to our female spirit showing on TV. After "Sex and the City" was over there was barely anything for non teen age ladies to watch. To make it short: - Very different and interesting characters - Unpredictable story lines - Beautiful faces - who wants to see bad looking people on TV right? :) - Not always realistic, but again, thats why we watch TV, otherwise we can just stare at neighbors windows to see reality. - Gives a very good feeling of female friendship and support. Isn't that why we watch TV shows? :)I really wish this show wouldn't get cancelled like "Lipstick Jungle" and "Cashmere Mafia". We NEED something out there for us ladies to watch :)
Patricia Moretti As with any new show, the characters grow with each episode. I think this show is well written and I have looked forward to each upcoming episode. There is suspense, which is always a good tease. I do not like reality shows so this is a very welcome show as was Ringer with Sarah Michelle Geller but that one was canceled. Let's hope this one is not canceled! I do not think it puts women down or makes them look stupid as some other viewers have stated. They all have very successful careers and you cannot achieve that being stupid. I do think it does show human vulnerability. People make mistakes, it's how we deal with those mistakes that matters and I think this show addresses exactly that. TV is for entertainment and this show is entertaining! So sit back, relax and enjoy!!!
raspick ssq Mistresses UK (the original BBC version) is one of my favourite TV shows. I have seen it so many times, it is that good. So when I heard that there was going to be a US version, I was so excited and I have been waiting for it to air for ages.Sadly this version is such a let-down. One of the best things about the original BBC version was the chemistry between the actors; not just between the lovers but also between the friends and especially between Siobhan (now called Savi in the US version) and Dominic vs. Hari (now called Harry). The actors that play the parts in the US version are great individually but there is just no spark between them. In the UK version, the sexual tension within the law firm was built up to the level that it became so palpable, you actually began rooting for Siobhan and Dom (even though they were cheating). Here however, it just came about - garter...slap bang! and we are left wondering what the?!? The same goes for the relationship between Dr Karen and Sam, her dead lovers son. In the UK version it was very well and richly drawn out with a lot of real emotional angst...from the funeral to the son becoming so obsessed about his dad having an affair before he died, to his search for his dad's 'mistress' and the mystery surrounding his dad's death while at the same time falling in love with Karen who against all odds (and moral conscience) falls right back in love with him. It was presented as being morally questionable (so, no, the show does not glorify infidelity as reviewers above seem to indicate, but shows how easy it is to fall for the wrong person and the real consequences of such a lack or lapse of self control) but it was done in a way that it was both sympathetic and believable. Not so with the US version where everything just looks shoddy and badly written.In Mistresses US, Dr Karen and Sam are totally mismatched and their acting is horribly wooden, uncomfortable to watch and just plain weird. But by far the worst offender is the character Joss, who, in the UK version was this well spoken, well dressed, beautiful, sexually liberated free spirit (latterly turned lesbian) and was a friend of the gals. In Mistresses US, she has become Savi's sister (why sister - total mismatch?) who dresses like a tramp and this breaks up what was already a strained dynamic (by that I mean that the 3 'friends' in Mistresses US do not seem to 'gel' at all...their relationship seems forced, like they are 3 acquaintances who meet up once in a while rather than what was 4 inseparable best mates in Mistresses UK). Also, the whole lesbian affair storyline here was just damp and spark-less...in the UK version it was meaningful, painful and believable rather than some sort of experiment that went wrong. Maybe there is more to come in the future about this. There is nothing redeemable about Mistresses US. I have just finished episode 6 and I really don't know if it is worth continuing. Rochelle and Alyssa are great, but they've been let down by the script. Maybe if I had never seen (and seen again and then again) our version (UK) I would have taken to this but...I really don't know why they changed so much of it. It was already a masterpiece. If you haven't already seen the UK version, please do so, maybe even concurrently.