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Billy Visual directed this 16-episode series for Digital Playground when Covid-19 had the nation in a state of lockdown, back in 2020 extending into 2021. It's porn, but best headed for a time capsule than fans' collections.

Presented in a documentary fashion (except for the XXX footage which is the usual gonzo content), it has porn talent interviewed regarding how the lockdown (ceasing porn production for several months into Summer 2020, and halting travel) affected them both personally and professionally. A big defect is the asking of nearly all of them the same stock questions, making for repetitious and often banal answers.

Among the questions are obvious ones, for example: What were your New Year's 2020 resolutions?, How did the quarantine affect your sex life?, How did you keep busy during the lockdown?, How did it affect your relationship with your fans?, What do you hope to do when restrictions are lifted?, etc.

Responses are less than scintillating, and mostly self-serving to a general support/defense of the porno industry. All of them naturally turned to working at home, with the actresses webcamming, making homemade custom videos and attending to their personal websites as no pro shoots were happening. Opportunity to keep in touch with their fanbase was appreciated, as well as taking personal charge of their careers in a period when no work assignments were forthcoming.

Famous stars are featured, notably Alexis Fawx and Cherie DeVille, and one newcomer, Black actress Olivia Jayy, lost her mainstream 9 to 5 job when Covid-19 hit, and turned to webcamming, becoming a porn actress for the first time during the lockdown. Fawx, one of the hottest of the performers featured, also is the most egregious in gung-ho attitude, even wearing Digital Playground inscribed bathing suits during her solo scene.

First few episodes are primitively shot, including using smartphones while by the end of the series the interviewees are back to work, including a 3-way starring DeVille and Fawx with Digital Playground veteran Scott Nails, shooting a scene on location at the familiar modern mansion with the distinctive Dolby logo front door handles.

Whether the interviewees are merely spewing bull akin to the junk one hears in BTS content on porn DVDs or are being sincere, it's fairly interesting to get their reactions. Director Billy takes quite a bit of artistic license, notably by casting Small Hands in an episode with his wife Joanna Angel, showing their home life together, and then bringing him back in a couple of other episodes portraying the "boyfriend" to Abigail Mac and Khole Kapri, strictly fake.