Kiss My Enemy — Episode 1

What happens in episode 1 of Kiss My Enemy

Episode 1 of Kiss My Enemy is Brooke's comeback night in women's wrestling, from a cracked locker-room mirror to a pin by a masked rival. It runs 83 seconds.

Brooke stares into a cracked mirror in a locker room that has seen better decades — peeling green tiles, a buzzing tube light, her white-and-gold ring gear the only clean thing in the room. Episode 1 is her comeback night after a match that nearly ended her career, and the opener spends real time on her nerves before it lets her near the ropes.

Across the ring waits a woman in a black leather mask, and their fight is filmed like a fight: a body slam with hair whipping across the frame, a slow strut toward the crowd, spotlights burning down. The final pin on the mat is where the series reveals its real subject. Two muscular, fully adult athletes, a rivalry that turns into attraction, and six episodes to work out which of them wins. One of the more physical openers in the catalogue.