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What’s the Story?

Reviewed by Pam Gelman

Each episode of TAXICAB CONFESSIONS, which debuted on HBO in the mid-'90s, features conversations recorded via small hidden cameras inside taxis in New York and Las Vegas. Men and women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and demographics share their stories. Viewers might meet a married couple demonstrating how to use strap-ons and other sexual accessories, a self-proclaimed borderline-suicidal transvestite who always packs a butcher knife for protection, a women who describes herself as "fat and ugly" and has no hope of ever finding love, or two young men determined to spend their evening with many women at once.

Is It Any Good?

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The show's "information" definitely does pique curiosity about the real lives of men and women living in urban settings. It's also very mature. Even adults are likely to be shocked by what they see and hear, but at least -- thanks to their own life experiences -- they can sift through the information and put it in context. But kids and young teens may very well be downright disturbed to hear so much raw talk of sex, violence, loneliness, desperation, fear, and sadness.

While it may all add up to be provocative slice of American urban life, Taxicab Confessions is clearly meant for adults only.

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