Based on the book by Clara Darling, LIFE ON TOP is a fascinating look at two yuppie sisters with different plans as to how to make it in Manhattan. The older sibling uses her model perfect body and sex in the city while the newbie plans on her business degree and brains to achieve her goal. The latter modifies her plan midstream to become a gambler, then former becomes a photographer by the end of Season 1. Such are the problems faced as the two try to succeed in the shifting of gears. I personally found Season 1 intriguing but it fizzled out by Season 2 with a sudden departure of one of the main characters.
Sophie Steele, a super brainy twenty-two and fresh out of business school, thinks she has it all: beauty, an MBA, and a high-powered job at a hedge fund in NYC. But Sophie's about to uncover a whole new life – a life filled with beautiful people, exclusive parties, and tantalizingly hot sex – when she moves into her older sister Bella's fabulous Tribeca penthouse apartment. Bella enjoys being a Penthouse Pet, she enjoys photography and especially the those fantasies inspired by it. Bella knows her younger sister will learn the truth about her secret life but is not ashamed as she enjoys sexual indulgences. However Bella looks forward to mentoring the new college grad plus other newbies until she receives a shocker that matches that of her sister.
The show actually is fairly loyal to the book but changes a bit to set up its four central characters (shades of Sex in the City) in a way that to me is better than how things worked in the book. The show's first season is fairly loyal and the very first episode will look familiar to those book readers. Bothportrayals include an actual storyline amongst the sex, so be prepared to see both as the storyline may take many episodes to gel but indulgent nudity and sex does not. It's a story about human beings that have sex ...and lots of it ...in fact one character is a Penthouse Pet, so she is visibly nude most of the time. So viewers might enjoy this somewhat over the top slice of making it in New York as a Penthouse Pet or just a newbie to the world of high finance in a man's world.
Sophie Steele, a super brainy twenty-two and fresh out of business school, thinks she has it all: beauty, an MBA, and a high-powered job at a hedge fund in NYC. But Sophie's about to uncover a whole new life – a life filled with beautiful people, exclusive parties, and tantalizingly hot sex – when she moves into her older sister Bella's fabulous Tribeca penthouse apartment. Bella enjoys being a Penthouse Pet, she enjoys photography and especially the those fantasies inspired by it. Bella knows her younger sister will learn the truth about her secret life but is not ashamed as she enjoys sexual indulgences. However Bella looks forward to mentoring the new college grad plus other newbies until she receives a shocker that matches that of her sister.
The show actually is fairly loyal to the book but changes a bit to set up its four central characters (shades of Sex in the City) in a way that to me is better than how things worked in the book. The show's first season is fairly loyal and the very first episode will look familiar to those book readers. Bothportrayals include an actual storyline amongst the sex, so be prepared to see both as the storyline may take many episodes to gel but indulgent nudity and sex does not. It's a story about human beings that have sex ...and lots of it ...in fact one character is a Penthouse Pet, so she is visibly nude most of the time. So viewers might enjoy this somewhat over the top slice of making it in New York as a Penthouse Pet or just a newbie to the world of high finance in a man's world.