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Maison Close - Season 2

Series: Maison Close

3.7

(43)

Episodes

Rating

Year

2016

About

Set in a lavish 19th Century Parisian bordello, the provocative and popular French erotic drama Maison Close invites American audiences into a sumptuous, stylized world where desire and power reign.

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Episodes

1. Episode 1

49m

The residents of the Paradise are forced to cohabitate with a band of Parisian thugs with highly questionable morals. Facing grave financial difficulties, the brothel must also survive the rise to power of a royalist chief commissioner who marks the return of a Moral Order.

2. Episode 2

47m

Chief Commissioner Torcy is suspicious of Mosca's involvement in a major burglary and sends Commissioner Angélus to The Paradise to make inquiries. Hortense, detesting Mosca's presence in her territory, makes a play to denounce him.

3. Episode 3

48m

Torcy comes to The Paradise to arrest Hortense. In exchange for her freedom, she agrees to work with the Moral Order. Meanwhile, Mosca takes interest in a group streetwalkers who are all alone after the death of their pimp, especially once he meets a procurer looking for girls to send to Buenos Aires…

4. Episode 4

42m

Despite being warned by Kertel, Mosca decides to keep the streetwalkers that were formerly under Corentin's charge "on the pavement." Valentine, dreaming of independence, is reunited with small-time criminal Rémi, who lures her into a trap. Véra decides to reveal everything to Jeanne…

5. Episode 5

48m

The prefect reproaches Torcy for the increasing number of prostitutes in the streets, putting his head is on the chopping block. Not to be outdone by Mosca, the vicious master of the Pigalle streets, known as The Butcher, forces his way into The Paradise…

6. Episode 6

55m

In order to restore calm to the streets of Paris, Torcy proposes that Mosca protect the peace at The Paradise and beyond. Véra wants Jeanne to believe that she was born out of love, telling her that her father was killed in a duel.

7. Episode 7

53m

Mosca and Rose get lost in a world of drugs and sex. Kertel takes matters into his own hands with the help of Bak. After Angéle contracts syphilis, the women of The Paradise decide to treat her on site. Not knowing Jeanne has been seeing Bak, Véra searches for a furnished apartment to satisfy her daughter's desire for independence.

8. Episode 8

56m

Torcy oversees the faithful's donations to the Sacred Heart, which add up to a tidy sum. Mosca jumps at the opportunity to strike a fatal blow to the chief commissioner and replenish his coffers at the same time. Meanwhile, the women of the Paradise are worried that Kertel and Bak are trying to overthrow Mosca for control of the streets.