'Mercy Mistress' Is the Kinky, Queer, Sex-Positive Dominatrix Show We’ve Been Waiting For

Mistress Yin first sashays onto the screen wearing head-to-toe leather, mile-high stilettos and a facial expression that says she means business. By day, she’s a top law student, but when duty calls, she heads to her private dungeon full of artfully arrayed toys designed to inflict both pain and pleasure. The new 10-part web series Mercy Mistress delves into her life as a queer, Asian-American dominatrix in New York City. Each episode spotlights a different client with a different kink, while simultaneously advancing Mei Yin Chen’s character development—think High Maintenance with less weed and more orgasms—and tackling societal preconceptions about queer femme sexuality and sex work in today’s world.