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 the show..Id be heartbroken if it was canceled!
If you love someone you can use this show to make sure , you are working on your relationship.We all fall short in this area.Loving someone and balancing life in this [whats in it for me world ] is very hard .This show deals with real[maybe the darker side of life ] we don’t like seeing.However with a almost 50% divorce rate[ churched an unchurched] maybe the network should renew the show as [marriage/relationship counseling aid].Love is abouting giving not receiving, if you find love your already lucky and blessed.There are more singles in USA than married, some of us… Read more »
great show lovit
why was the last episode so vague
Love this show! Please don’t cancel!!!!
I love the show and look forward to Thursdays or I have to tape it.
I find it tittilating and enjoyable. Surely would be disappointed if it gets cancelled.
Love the show! Also a fan of Matt Passmore from The Glades. Don’t cancel. This show is well done.
This is great! Please renew.
Gee M. get a grip, turn it off if you don’t like it, or better yet trow your TV away. If I don’t care for a program, I won’t watch it, simple as that. But your tirade is just a bit much, really, tell us how you really feel. I’ll leave you with that…
And Frank …. You have left me with nothing. And that is just fine. We are each entitled to our personal opinion.
With only the season finale remaining, we can now say the following. SATISFACTION is a one-hour weekly television show. If it were a full-length 2-hour movie showing at your local neighborhood theater, how would it be different? (Assuming it is not totally re-written … plot, script, and story line) (1) We could expect the characters to be totally nude, rather than the partial nudity we’ve seen so far. (2) We could expect to see sex being performed, in all its variations, with nothing left to the imagination. (3) We could expect the movie to have an “X-Rating.” (4) We could… Read more »
M you’re an idiot, the FCC and their regulations don’t apply to cable television, only networks that broadcast over the public airwaves such as NBC, ABC, FOX and CBS fall under their rules, the USA Network does not and besides that NYPD Blue showed more skin 20 years ago than this show has while ON broadcast TV. The reason you don’t see much in the way of nudity on cable networks is because most of them rely on advertisers who they’re going to appease and avoid it though that didn’t stop Breaking Bad from a topless scene in its first… Read more »
DC … Isn’t it wonderful we live in a country where neither of us has to give a fat rat’s backside what the other thinks! And trust me on this … I don’t care what you think! I have just as much right to an opinion as you do … you arrogant AZZ! See there … I can use insulting language just as well as you can. The only difference is that I have to work at it, whereby it comes naturally to you.
M, it is not “porn”. It made me laugh when you said that! This is a terrific show and I can hardly wait until next season. It is very different than anything I have ever seen.
I love the show and watched Matt Passmore in The Glade also and was so disappointed when the show was cancelled. Glad they got him back on the screen would love to see him in movies too.
I love this show. It is very different from everything else on TV. Actors are all excellent, and well chosen for their parts. The young couple struggling with their young love and love of music that brought them together is an excellent addition. Please don’t cancel! I will be heart broken!!
Agree 100%. Nothing like this on t.v. Smacking twists. Episodes continue to get better, as plot becomes more interesting every week. Definitely. It a piece of soft-porn plush.
This is a great show. Don’t even think about canceling. Passmore is so convincing in his role, that he could be the next Tom Cruise or Robert Redford. He’s not only gorgeous but he’s very sensitive. With the combination of topnotch writing and an excellent cast, you have a winner.
I so agree with you, Joan!
Love this show !!!!!!!
this show is my favorite…. intense and def. leaves me wanting more!!!
Please bring it back