Cheer Squad Sleepovers Episode 3

Episode 3 of Girlfriends' hit series falls quickly into the trap of sameness. New talent keeps the show alive in recent years, but O'Connell & co. behind the cameras could benefit from some script-writing or doctoring.

Running a laborious 3 hours, the show keeps harping on the corniest of the label's premises: namely that its characters are constantly fearful of lesbian tendencies yet always giving into them as that is the whole purpose of each and every video. First half of the video runs this concept into the ground, only to be amplified half way through the earth towards China in the second half.

Cryptic opening starts off a very slow-paced movie with house fraus Anastasia Pierce and Jelena Jensen opening and reading a large number of vintage letters found in a bank's Safety Deposit Box. The point of this exercise is never explained and the content of the letters boring rather than intriguing.

When this dullness finally blows over, we have the situation of Pierce fearful of her daughter Bree Daniels' lesbian tendencies. She sics Bree on Jelena to get a good talking to, but Jelena, with a very slow burn, seduces Bree instead, making for hot sex featuring the contrasting body types but pure nonsense from a dramatic point-of-view. Pierce, who is almost a plumper for some unknown reason (before her hour-glass figure of fetish icon proportions in more recent videos), beds down with Bree's BFF Marie McCray, seduced by the little minx. Bree is certainly in the spotlight here, and looks great with uncustomary blonde hairdo.

Second half is more ridiculous than sublime, thanks to Syren De Mer's over-the-top performance. De Mer plays a divorced mom visited by school teacher Daisy Layne, who is afraid of incipient lesbian tendencies exhibited at school and on the cheerleaders' trips to sporting events, between De Mer's daughter Cassie Laine and cute friend Chloe Lynn. The upshot is that De Mer agrees to talk to the youngsters and set them straight. But little does straitlaced Daisy expect peculiar Syren's approach to goad the kids into acting out in the bedroom, resulting in sex between them on the provision that they ONLY hump in the safety of her home, not in school or at any school events.

Daisy is nonplussed by this turn of events, but buys into Syren's explanation, and summarily seduced by Syren. At this point the feature goes off the rails because suddenly, through the magic of Lesbian Cinema, Daisy is even more proficient at Sapphic lovemaking than Syren, putting all the painstaking verbal drivel that preceded this climax to the status of fake news.

These actresses are all terrific in the sack, and Daisy went on to star in an excellent performance in Lily Cade's highly recommended "Infidelity: A Love Story" for Filly Films the same year. Too bad Lily didn't write or direct this project as well.