Paula tries to settle into a new apartment with Trevor, who appears on her laptop screen. Their conversation turns intimate and reveals Trevor is not a longtime friend but a sex worker. Paula also struggles with co-parenting her daughter Hazel with her ex-husband Karl while pursuing a promotion at work as a factchecker. After Paula witnesses Trevor being attacked, police suspect a scam. An unknown caller then threatens to destroy her life and kill Trevor unless she wires $50,000. Paula insists the attack was real and investigates what happened, uncovering a network of lies involving other sex workers, university admission committees, and a stoic man tied to Trevor’s past.
"When we first meet Paula ( Tatiana Maslany), the protagonist of Apple TV+'s new series "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed," she's attempting to arrange her new apartment, with the help of friend Trevor ( Brandon Flynn), a handsome young man who currently resides on her laptop screen. She rambles about her struggles co-parenting her daughter, Hazel (Nola Wallace), with her ex-husband Karl ( Jake Johnson), before Trevor drops a bomb: they only have six minutes left on their scheduled call. As the two spend the next few minutes furiously and, respectively, rubbing one out, it becomes clear that the person whom Paula has shared all her secrets with is not a longtime friend, but rather, a sex worker."
"If Paula didn't already have enough on her plate as she attempts to get a promotion at her job as a factchecker amidst a nasty custody battle, her plights get even worse when, one night over a shared meal (through a computer screen, of course), she witnesses Trevor being attacked in his apartment. While the police think Trevor has orchestrated a scam, Paula soon receives a phone call from an unknown voice telling her that "they" know everything about her, her job, and her family troubles, and they will destroy her life and kill Trevor if she doesn't wire them $50,000. Though the whole thing seems fishy, Paula is adamant that what she witnessed was real, and she will stop at nothing to uncover what really happened to Trevor, who, in a time of need, was the only one truly there for her."
"While this set-up sounds like it could be the beginning of any other thriller series, "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" quickly proves itself to be unlike anything else this overfilled genre has produced as of late. What begins as a potential seedy scam quickly unfolds into a complicated web of lies entwined with other sex workers, university admission committees, and a stoic man connected to Trevor's past, played by Murray Bartlett. He, paired with Maslany, uses the series"
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