Red Shoe Diaries: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Red Shoe Diaries Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Caged Bird
Mar 1, 1997
Dakota is a smart, sexy tough woman who has been hurt too many times to let her guard down. In prison, she meets a guard, Charlie Parker. Dakota pulls out all her tricks trying to
Cowboy, Cowboy
Mar 8, 1997
After the breakup of her marriage, Susan seeks the calm reprieve of the countryside where she was raised. While settling back into her old lifestyle, she gets roped into a romance
Picnic
Mar 15, 1997
Caught in a dilemma between her jealous boyfriend and another man, a woman suggests another arrangement.
The Ex
Mar 22, 1997
After Daisy makes love to her new boyfriend Michael they find themselves hostages of her ex, who's been watching and recording and even planted a bomb, hoping to win Daisy back not
The Boxer
Mar 29, 1997
Kate is a photographer who has given up on love until she falls for Max, a struggling boxer she allows to stay at her loft while they work together on a perfume ad. With Max's help
Swimming Naked
Apr 5, 1997
A female lifeguard learns a thing or two about the breast stroke when a male Olympic swimmer starts to train at her pool.
Dime a Dance
Apr 12, 1997
A trio of women work at the Stardust, the last of the dime-a-dance joints. All are grief-stricken over the loss of their father figure band leader, Arnie. Leave it to Michael, his
Temple of Flesh
Apr 19, 1997
A woman promises her husband a strip tease for their one-year anniversary, but when they pick up two hippies who share their insights on life and a lot of champagne during the limo
Laundrymat
A lonely single mother's passions flare when she meets a handsome drifter late one night at the Laundromat. After a night together they go their separate ways as strangers but real
Banished
Dec 27, 1997
A condemned Angel is horrified to realize he is cursed with the treacherous power to kill with a kiss and must walk the earth alone and absent from love, forever.
As She Wishes
Jan 3, 1998
A suicidal sado-masochistic (yet beautiful) woman experiences a tender unconditional love with a hunky hermit who rescued her after she was washed ashore on a deserted island.
Weightless
Jan 24, 1998
A beautiful astronaut trapped in a dying spacecraft a million miles away from home, makes tender love for the last time with her co-pilot as she ruminates about sensual path of her
Farmer's Daughter
Jan 31, 1998
Out on a country road, a young cyclist is injured during a training ride and finds himself being nursed back to health by the amorous daughter of a vineyard owner.
Details
Feb 7, 1998
A sheltered uptight businesswoman learns to relax when an Italian chef starts tooling around with her Alfa Romeo and cooks up a storm with her hormones.
Carried Away
Feb 21, 1998
A woman flees to a country farm to rethink her crumbling relationship. When a storm knocks out all communication except carrier pigeon, soon she and her boyfriend communicate as ne
Jealousy
Feb 28, 1998
Two newlyweds have their honeymoon interrupted when the bride learns she has landed a dream role in a major feature film. When shešs whisked away to the set, her morose hubby becom
Strip Poker
Apr 11, 1998
A photographer spies a game of strip poker but it isn't until she joins in that she experiences the joy of being a player, a lost diary reminds a lonely woman of the ecstasy of tru
The Teacher
Apr 18, 1998
A beautiful woman engages in an adulterous affair with a sexy stranger at her exclusive tennis club. What she doesn't realize in the midst of her amorous interludes is that her hus