Czech Harem Review

The episode titles are arithmetic. Twenty women and one man, then twenty-five, then thirty. This studio has one idea and scales it, and the number in the title is the product — each release has to beat the last on headcount or there is nothing new to sell.

That is a production problem more than a creative one. Getting thirty performers into one room on one day, and shooting it so anyone can follow what is happening, is logistics; the scenes are named for the count because the count is the achievement being advertised.

It is also, unusually for its network, entirely open about being staged. The sibling sites it cross-sells lean on covert-recording premises — cameras in taxis, cameras in saunas — while this one advertises a fantasy nobody could mistake for documentary, and that honesty is a point in its favour.

Access comes as part of the same 32-site CzechAV membership, priced as low as sixteen dollars a month depending on the door you enter through, with a free trailer on the front page. Judge it on whether escalating headcount stays interesting past the first episode.