Eden

Eden (1993) from Tuna

Eden (1993) is a T&A soap opera that takes place at a resort called Eden. It was among of the first group of shows to cross over from pay cable to basic cable. It aired first on the Playboy Channel uncensored, then on USA Network in censored versions. The DVD consists of the 26 original (uncensored) episodes from the Playboy Channel.

The following summarizes what happens in what the DVD set calls "part one" of six.

Barbara Alyn Woods plays a widow who runs a tropical resort, and she spends much of her screen time flashing back to sex with her dead husband, whom she can't get over. According to his will, she will lose the resort unless she marries soon. Her brother-in-law would very much like to give her some hot new memories suitable for future flashbacks.

Other characters include:

Gym instructor Darci DeMoss, who has an asshole ex-husband
Diana Barton, who wants her lover to divorce his wife, Elizabeth Lambert.
Best friends Jill Pierce and Kristen Fontaine, who both boff the diving instructor, then get upset about it.

The show's formula consists of two things: first, some woman must show her breasts and buns every 10 minutes; second, people must try their level best, between the T&A, to make sure the plot doesn't advance. The cast and crew accomplished both of those admirably in part one of this set. I will leave it to someone else to watch the other five parts, because that is far from my idea of entertainment. In fact, watching it made me completely swear off filmed entertainment for three days.

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NUDITY REPORT

The T&A team in part one consists of Barbara Alyn Woods, Darci DeMoss, Diana Barton, Elizabeth Lambert, Jill Pierce and Kristen Fontaine.

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The meaning of the IMDb score: 7.5 usually indicates a level of excellence equivalent to about three and a half stars from the critics. 6.0 usually indicates lukewarm watchability, comparable to approximately two and a half stars from the critics. The fives are generally not worthwhile unless they are really your kind of material, equivalent to about a two star rating from the critics, or a C- from our system. Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or a D on our scale. (Possibly even less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.

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A serious weakness of our scoring system is that we can't award less than an E- if something is technically competent unless it includes Jeff Fahey. Lacking Fahey, this is a very, very, very, very low E-.