Network: USA
Episodes: 20 (hour)
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: July 17, 2014 — December 18, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Matt Passmore, Stephanie Szostak, Michelle DeShon, Katherine LaNasa, and Blair Redford.
TV show description:
This drama TV show explores modern marriage at its midpoint through the lens of one husband and wife — Neil (Matt Passmore) and Grace Truman (Stephanie Szostak).
Neil has a successful career, a loving family, a beautiful house, a big-screen television, and more. So why does he feel like something is still missing? The truth is that 18 years of marriage and countless 80 hour weeks have left Neil feeling disconnected from everything and everyone he loves.
After a big outburst on a plane leads him to quit his job, Neil stumbles across his wife Grace in the throes of passion with another man. Furious, Neil confronts his wife’s lover, Simon, only to learn the more shocking truth — their meeting was a professional arrangement. Grace is seeing a male escort.
The news hits Neil like punch to the gut, but when he inadvertently winds up with Simon’s phone, he makes the decision try out the escort business for himself in the hope that the experience might offer some new insight. As it turns out, Neil’s good looks, skill closing deals, and apparent sexual prowess make him a natural.
He soon finds himself a hot property — both with a local madam (who is intrigued by this new stud on the scene) and his old boss (who is impressed by Neil’s newfound swagger).
But just because Neil’s life is getting a shot in the arm doesn’t mean that his old problems have disappeared. As if the hole in his marriage and his daughter’s teenage growing pains aren’t enough, he also has to deal with Simon, who isn’t too pleased to have his business stolen out from under him, and isn’t afraid to make things a lot more difficult for Neil.
Grace had big aspirations as a young woman but passed up a Fulbright scholarship and a career in the arts to raise a family with Neil. She deeply loves Neil and their daughter Anika but as her old dreams have receded further and further into the past, she’s begun to feel as empty and unfulfilled as the open houses she now decorates part time.
So when a night chasing excitement leads to an encounter with Simon, a male escort, Grace begins to take advantage of his services. Even if it doesn’t fill the void in her life, it’s something new and exciting. But while the arrangement begins as a professional one, like any relationship it evolves over time. And now that Neil knows Grace’s secret, things are about to become a lot more complicated.
Sexy and suave, sensitive and sophisticated, Simon (Blair Redford) has something that women just respond to which is probably why many of them, pay handsomely for the pleasure of his company. Simon has really started to make a name for himself in the field, so he’s not too happy when Neil steals that name, along with his client list.
Episode #20 — … Through New Beginnings
The deal with Barry, the former Bastion client, to invest in Neil and Grace’s new escort service is looking promising until Adriana sours him on it so she can put herself forward as their investor instead. But Neil and Grace do not want to get into bed, so to speak, with Adriana. Neil then approaches Kate, the blogger who wrote the exposé on him, about her introducing them to an angel investor whom she knows in exchange for their cooperation on being the subjects of a book she wants to write. But when Neil sees that there are too many strings attached, he backs away. Now that Simon is the CEO of Waverly Industries, could he be the partner they’ve been looking for?
After testing out several potential sperm donors and finding none of them to her liking, Adriana realizes that she’s been looking in all the wrong places for the right man. At the casino night party, Adriana tricks Neil into going up to her suite under the pretense of looking for Grace. Now that she’s decided what, or rather whom, she wants, she’s not going to let anything to stand in her way. (Courtesy USA)
First aired: December 18, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like the Satisfaction TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a third season?
Love it bring it back
Great Show….The story around the daughter is great! I think the entire show
is well written. People who do not like the daughters story line need to realize
there are Black people in the world, get over it! Renew USA.
I would like to see Satisfaction continued. I think Satisfaction is something new and very daring, but I enjoy the show very much. There are a lot of other programs to watch on your TV for those who do not like the subject matter. Parents should monitor all programs that their children watch on TV. If parents see violence in the same way as they see sex, most TV programs would be canceled.
Why do shows start to flounder then we bring in the interracial card.
I love Matt Passmore and I was disappointed when The Glades was cancelled (so abruptly). I’m delighted to have another opportunity to watch him. I like the show but it is getting boring and the story line with the daughter is a tired one and very predictable and needs to be eliminated. She should go off to college far away and be written out of the show. The show has a very interesting new and different premise and for that reason I think should it continue but it needs new writers.
Was looking forward to this show at first but very disappointed. Every episode gets more and more unrealistic and in turn, boring. Cancel time.
Show is unrealistic, it shows adultry as a part of normal marrige. It is a part of normal divorce.If I was Matt I”d thrown her out,turned Simone in to police&IRS giving the police the phone after I contacted as many husbands as I could.Iwould have caught them on video the first time,used it in divorce court, post it on the web along with the name and info on all Simones clients.Show needs to end in divorce now 50/50 because of matts choices to let the public know adultry never saves a relationship only destroys.No trust left to build on.Showtime is… Read more »
The series “Satisfaction” is so annoying to watch. The leading male character has no mental/emotional substance what so ever. At least the wife is aware of the fact that she loves her husband, he’s a good provider, but he’s not satisfying her emotional/physical needs. The husband, on the other hand, is all over the map…he wants his wife, he feels sorry for the other lonely women he sleeps with, he’s uncontrollably lured into lust by the very scary woman who’s the “madam/pimp”, yet nobody’s really labeling him as a male *****. At least we know Ray Donovan loves his wife… Read more »
PEOPLE ITS FICTION. AN ESCAPE FROM REALITY!
If u let ur children watch this ur irresponsible. If u have ever been cheated on that’s awful ! They are not promoting infedelity, they are unraveling the lives of a family who are tangled in threads of crisis. Watch another show! This show is very well written and the plot is deeply layered. Im on the edge of my seat each week. Its new and original. They created real characters who are living exaggerated storylines. True drama! I want to see more.
Am hooked on Satisfaction.
Renew
I really thought I would dislike it becauose of the story line but im hooked.I think if a married couple watches together also it can help in the bedroom..i don’t mean do what they do but the whole show is kinda butsexually arousing..lol…igive ita thumbs up..obviously not or kids …ont cancel
I like the show. Well written, well acted. No reasonable adult is using a TV show as their moral compass. I don’t understand why people are upset about the issues being explored here. If you really think your kid will be influenced that much, turn the show off.And better not let them watch ANY reality shows.
cancelled
Shows like this neglects to highlight the nasty side of infidelity. Instead it glorifies the act. When people watch they don’t see the serious consequences of a husband cheating on a wife and vice versa. No one sees the STDs and late night trip to the ER to pick up meds. Nothing beats being able to trust your spouse. Even with the ugly stuff- and knowing that your partner cares enough to take you seriously and work on the relationship with you and only you.
Please Cancel. Been in a place where I was cheated on. Not a place I ever want to go again. People wonder why there is no trust for even the ones closest any more. Our teens already have a hard enough time with restraint and respect for others without encouraging it on TV shows. Change what they watch change the environment they will create.