What’s the responsible way to write about a TV show featuring a sex scene that matches your own sexual fetishes closely enough that you practically could have written it yourself? Dislcaimer Episode 3 isn’t my first encounter with this dilemma — I cover Industry — but it is one of the trickiest. I suspect that there’s more to young Catherine Ravenscroft’s prolonged seduction and sexual encounter with Jonathan Rigstocke than meets the eye. (Yeah, the eye, that’s the ticket.
) The show’s counting on making you too horny to notice. In that regard it almost succeeds. Over drinks following an evening with her son Nick, Catherine coaxes a masturbatory fantasy about Kylie Minogue out of her infatuated teenage companion.
Wearing less a dress than a suggestion of one, tracing her fingertips across wine glasses and the skin of her chest, leaning on all the words you’re not supposed to say in polite company, she nearly has Jonathan coming in his pants before they leave the table. Instead, all confidence, she offers an invitation up to her room that he dutifully accepts, like..
.well, like a good boy . In the room, the older woman humblebrags about her post-maternity body.
(It’s okay I guess.) She walks the younger man through eating her out, describing what he should do to her in explicit detail; no body parts are mentioned by name, but the road map she gives him is unmistakable. The scene is full of incredibly hot little details — her command that he kneel and unlac.
