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Secret Diary Of A Call Girl - Season 1
Based on the popular diary of the anonymous sex worker known only as Belle de Jour. Hannah Baxter, a 27-year-old college graduate, has her parents believing she works as a legal secretary, but she actually entertains clients of an exclusive London escort service as her alter ego, Belle.
20 July 1951, Birmingham, England, UK
13 May 1985, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
1953, London, England, UK
11 September 1979, Oxford, England, UK
12 July 1980, UK
June 16, 2008
Secret Diary has amusing touches, but not enough to sustain an entire series.
June 16, 2008
There is a valuable, if small, dramatic undercurrent to Call Girl.
June 16, 2008
As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession.
June 16, 2008
It's not that much fun to watch an actress who, except for the occasional times when she lets loose one of her charmingly loud second-soprano laughs, seems always to be asking more of us than she's giving.
June 16, 2008
The longer you watch the show (I've seen all eight episodes of its first season), the emptier and more frustrating it becomes, to the point where even the brief running time begins to feel too long.
June 16, 2008
While sex can be a big motivator in general, it does not yet sustain this show.
June 16, 2008
After seeing the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda and Julia Roberts portray call girls, we frankly need a little more than Belle's unsurprising double life to keep us, uh, hooked.
June 16, 2008
Secret Diary of a Call Girl doesn't reveal many secrets.
June 16, 2008
Secret Diary gets no points for consistency. None for realism, either.
June 16, 2008
It would help if an actual woman stopped miming fellatio and did something interesting for a minute or two.