Paula Sanders, a magazine fact-checker, faces repeated setbacks: she is overlooked for promotion, is in a custody battle with her ex-husband, and becomes involved in her daughter’s youth soccer team to prove her worth. To cope with loneliness, she pays attention to a cam boy named Trevor. During a session, Trevor is assaulted and kidnapped on camera, and Paula records the assault, reports it to police, and is dismissed as a scam. Soon she receives demands for money from someone claiming to be Trevor’s kidnapper. Paula investigates impulsively and discovers Trevor’s dead body. The investigation spirals into a darker mystery that entangles her coworkers, complicates custody, and increases pressure while mixing terror and dark comedy.
"Paula records the assault on camera, takes it to the police - an officer played by Dolly de Leon dismisses it as an obvious scam - and then gets the inevitable ask for money from someone claiming to be his kidnapper. Paula impulsively decides to investigate, and at the end of the first episode, she discovers Trevor's dead body."
"From there, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed sends Maslany's character along an ever-spiraling and darkening mystery, which entangles her co-workers at the magazine (played by Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg and Charlie Hall), complicates that custody battle, and puts her under ever more pressure."
"There's a lot going on in this show between murder, cam sex, custody battles, youth soccer, fact-checking. What was the original germ of this idea? David J. Rosen: I had been thinking about how we're living through an epidemic of loneliness, and the same devices that we use to talk to our meemaws and see them are the same ones that are keeping us separate in ou"
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