The worst thing about Tatiana Maslany’s new series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is that its pacing makes you want to binge it, but the show is on Apple TV+ which has only dishes out one episode a week after releasing the first two.

In Maximum Pleasure, Maslany, who was a revelation playing umpteen different clones on Orphan Black, plays but one character: Paula, a recently-divorced single mom who works as a fact-checker and has a rather unusual hobby: patronizing a “cam-boy” named Trevor (Brandon Flynn). She pays Trevor for the Maximum Pleasure guaranteed by the title, but whatever enjoyment Trevor was providing is cut short after she witnesses him being violently attacked while they are conversing via their computer screens.

Paula records the horrifying incident with her phone and reports it to the world-weary Detective Sofia Gonzalez (Dolly De Leon) of the New York City police force. Far from being horrified, Det. Gonzalez tells Paula she’s being scammed, and sure enough, Paula gets a call from Trevor begging for money. Paula does what Det. Gonzalez and the rest of the cops refuse to do: she figures out where Trevor lives through clues gleaned from her video of his attack. But when she finds where he lives and lets herself in his house, she is horrified to discover that he’s been murdered.

And her luck gets even worse: the murderer returns to deal with the body as Paula hides in the house. He figures out she’s there and tries to catch her, but even though she gets away he finds a way to track her down.

With the police already involved, it’s not long before Paula herself is called out for knowing more than she’s disclosing and there are things in her past that make the police discount her story of encountering the actual killer, who is tightening the net around her. And as if her life isn’t complicated enough, her ex-husband Karl (Jake Johnson) and his new wife Mallory (Jessy Hodges) want to move to Idaho with his and Paula’s daughter Hazel (Nola Wallace), and Paula’s entanglement with the police and a murderer drastically increases their desire to leave New York behind.

Paula’s co-workers Rudy (Charlie Hall) and Geri (Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg) also get involved in Paula’s drama, but it’s unclear whether they truly have her best interests at heart. But Paula doesn’t seem to have any other friends so however ill-advised it may turn out to be, she trusts them with her secrets and asks for their advice.

Maslany plays Paula as smart, capable, but human enough to make mistakes, and even when the trouble she’s in is of her own making, we the audience can’t help rooting for her to overcome. Though Maslany plays but one character in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, Paula has many layers to her, which are revealed as new information is revealed via flashbacks. Maslany has already proved she can carry a show almost single-handedly in Orphan Black, and that she can ably hold the center of the action as she did in She-Hulk. Here, all the action, all of the plotlines and all of the other characters revolve around her story, but this is where Maslany shines. Fans of her acting will enjoy her even in this non-genre show.

The release schedule of the show is very frustrating, as each episode’s cliffhanger ending will leave you wanting resolution. The Maximum Pleasure suggested by the show’s title is a bit misleading as the plot always edges close to a climactic ending before distracting us with something to prevent resolution. But even without the climax, there’s plenty to enjoy, thanks to Maslany.

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed was created by David J. Rosen, who wrote most of the episodes thus far. Episodes were directed by David Gordon Green, Dan Sackheim, Damon Thomas and Althea Jones. Four of its ten episodes are available to stream on Apple TV+ and new ones drop on Wednesdays.

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