One Line Review: Sex/life is extremely lifeless, completely outrageous show except for Sarah Shahi’s performance.
Youtube Trailer Sex/Life
Starring: Adam Demos, Sarah Shahi, Mike Vogel
Director: Stacey Rukeser
Release Date: 25 June 2021
Introduction
The new series from Netflix would like to be hip and in vogue. She wants to be sexy and exciting. She also wants to meet the zeitgeist. In general: Everything about “Sex / Life” screams “I am important, see and hear me”. Curiously, this also applies to the main character played by Sarah Shahi, who is stuck in the perfect marriage, but longs to experience real passion again. As in the past, when she was still rummaging through the sheets with a bad boy. “Sex/Life” is like “50 Shades of Gray” one. So gentle, so tender, so completely beyond what actually wants to be shown, that the clientele can dream of enjoying it too.
Plot Analysis
Billie (Sarah Shahi) had a full love life. During the Kama Sutra, she dislocated more than once. But hey it was good! Unfortunately, nothing is good anymore in their perfect marriage with the perfect children and the perfect man. Cooper (Mike Vogel) prefers to watch football than to take care of his wife ..
So Billie dreams of the years before she met Cooper. At that time she was still a wild sweeper and she would like to be again.
A little critique from my side
Stacy Rukeyser developed the series for Netflix. Her “claim to fame” is eight episodes of “UnReal”, a terrific, snappy series on a reality format similar to “Bachelor”. Obviously, the snappy didn’t come from Rukeyser. What she presents in the series isn’t even a pale shadow. It just doesn’t exist. Because “Sex/Life” doesn’t work in any way.
The series does not have a gripping story, nor does it work as a romantic set piece. Basically, nothing happens. Billie may long for passion, but that’s about it. Otherwise, nothing happens.
The erotic scenes should judge it, but they never go beyond what a streamer would dare to do. Sure, if this were a network series it would be bold and exciting, but actually, it’s as lame as “50 Shades of Gray”.
Conclusion
With “Sex/Life”, Netflix has an extremely lifeless, completely outrageous show on offer, the dialogues of which are bad to the point of pain. Nothing fits here, only Sarah Shahi looks cute. But you can’t lead a series to success with that either. But it wouldn’t be surprising if such a lousy product like this got a second season because the right clientele simply switched on en masse. The whole thing seems to work for them.
