‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’ Ending Explained: Does Paula Win The Custody Battle? And What’s Season 1’s Big Cliffhanger?

When the end credits roll on Season 1 of David J. Rosen’s hit Apple TV series Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed, fans of the dark comedic thriller will be just as jaw-dropped as our protagonist Paula (Tatiana Maslany). Before Season 1’s penultimate episode wrapped, Paula had finally started to piece together the perplexing puzzle of the much larger criminal organization responsible for ruining her life. With help from Rudy (Charlie Hall) and Geri (Kiarra Hamagami Goldberg), she realized that Dennis (Murray Bartlett) was simply a middle man, and that Blake Vanderwalle — the kid Dennis blackmailed that admissions lady into admitting to Yale — was the son of Cecilia Vanderwalle (Nina Arianda), Senior Vice President of The Souter Group, a global risk advisement firm with ties to a lot of the clients