Review of Sex/Life

Sex/Life (2021–2023)
1/10
Copycat & female empowerment
29 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
It's part Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City and 50 Shades of Grey. I haven't read the book but this is really bad, it's like a comedy porn. First episode had me in stitches with the lazy writing, nonsense plotline, cringey cliches, dialogue and bad acting especially Demos. I have not see an actor as wooden and monotonous sounding as him for a long time. Is that why he bare all because that's all he has to offer?

All the characters are 2 dimensional. They do things that raise questions - Billie and Sasha are two psychologists but they behave like sexual delinquents with Billie's very unhealthy obsession with her ex, Brad. She's so unhinge even cognitive behaviour therapy would be useless for her, not that she'd know how bad her mental health is.

Billie and Sasha's friendship is so tight that not only does Billie not mind that Sasha is sleeping with Brad but watches them and 'participates' too.

The last few minutes of episode 8, sees Sasha delivering a message about white power and that power also suppressing women's needs. It somehow triggers Billie's lust that after watching her son's school production, she literally runs to her ex's apartment as a normal wife and mum would. She utters the most insane and crude things to him and the credit rolls.

Things happen for no apparent reason to connect all the animated sex scenes. Then the writer throws in a woke lecture just because it's 2021. This is just another porn show. Really rushed, badly created and amoral. The message it sends is that it's female empowerment to want and have it all. Even at the expense of hurting people close to you.
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