Cinemax's adult series, "Passion Cove," is a winner, and it deserves to run for years.
A vintage drama that revolves around the romantic lives of its characters, "Passion Cove" appeals to the erotic side in adults. Its characters (and actors) are attractive. They have different backgrounds. But they have one thing in common: striving toward a strong balance of love and pleasure.
The erotic program is well-produced; it isn't sleazy, nor does it come off aimlessly. I like it because it has a healthy attitude toward sex. Unlike some other cable adult series -- past and present -- "Passion Cove" has a good look to it (never too brightly or darkly lit), and the scripts are above what you'd normally anticipate from a program of this genre (for something truly hideous, for comparison's sake, think of the stuff that's aired on Showtime, like "Hot Springs Hotel" and especially the neurotically lifeless "Red Shoe Diaries").
"Passion Cove" is one of cable's smartest produced adult series -- ranking along with such greats as HBO's 1980s anthology "The Hitchhiker," Showtime's 1980s soap "A New Day in Eden," and Cinemax's 1990s joyous "Hot Line" -- and I hope this series has a good, long life.
