Unless you're deaf, you've probably heard of it before.

Sex / Life

, available since the end of June, is an “erotic” series, or less classified as such by Netflix, adapted from the novel

44 Chapters About 4 Men

by BB Easton.

The pitch?

Stay-at-home mom of two toddlers Billie (Sarah Shahi) is no longer sexually satisfied with her husband Cooper (Mike Vogel) at all.

She questions her lifestyle choices and marriage when she thinks back to Brad (Adam Demos), an ex with whom she had a toxic but extremely sexually intense relationship.

Billie finds herself stuck between the memory of her sassy youth, very festive of the title and her relationship with Brad trying to try his luck again (the "sex"), and her perfectly tidy life in a big house in Connecticut with Cooper, the ideal man "of which all women dream" (the "life" therefore).

For sex we will come back

Teased by a controversy over a

full frontal

(a scene with a naked body filmed from the front) for which the actor concerned (Adam Demos) denied having called on an understudy,

Sex / Life is

disappointing in this regard.

Regarding the sex and the erotic aspect, we quickly recognize the Netflix touch: the scenes are finally repetitive and brief, to almost completely disappear towards the end of the series.

The two main male actors fall into clichés: handsome and muscular according to American beauty canons, rich and

successful

.

We are promised an erotic and carnal series, we end in the melodrama of an endless love triangle.

A scenario deeper than it seems

The start of the series is interesting, however, and raises deeper questions that make sex scenes more than props for lazy screenwriters. Indeed, the series puts at the center of its plot the question of female desire and pleasure, which is still rare on the screen. Billie and Sasha (her best friend) are two intelligent, bright and free women who fully assume their sexuality and libido, while knowing how to set limits.

This is how Billie gets bored in a life that seems perfect, and supposed to fill it: according to her, it is not because you become a mother that you no longer have desires or wishes. 'desires.

Her kind husband no longer perceives her as a sensual woman any more, but only as the mother of her children.

And this is the heart of the problem according to Billie, a professional psychologist, who comes to ask herself two questions, and which will justify the end of the season, leaving the spectators mixed: is her tidy life really what she is doing. dream, what do women dream of?

Can sex be secondary in a couple?

A happy audience all the same

In short, sex, beautiful actors, a sulphurous love triangle, psychological torments and twists: the spectators do not need more, who are already waiting for a season 2, which has not yet been confirmed.

A week after it was put online, 

Sex / Life

 is number 2 in the French ranking and number 4 in the American ranking of the most viewed content on the American platform.

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