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- Starz
- Jul 21, 2023
- Starz
- Jul 21, 2023
Summary In 1970s Los Angeles, a young feminist named Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) works with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to start the first erotic magazine for women in this comedy series written by Ellen Rapoport.
Created By: Ellen Rapoport
- Starz
- Jul 21, 2023
- Starz
- Jul 21, 2023
Summary In 1970s Los Angeles, a young feminist named Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) works with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to start the first erotic magazine for women in this comedy series written by Ellen Rapoport.
Created By: Ellen Rapoport
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Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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93% Positive
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Nothing is over-the-top dramatic; it’s lighthearted but serious, and a joy to watch—while still reminding its viewers of the very real hurdles those of us who are not straight white men must jump over just to succeed in this world. In its grand return, Minx’s second season is a fantastic balancing act of epic proportions.
It smartly elevates the workplace comedy genre with standout performances (Johnson and Parham are the MVPs) and comes off as an excellent ride. Now if only there was a bit more time before it reached its rushed climax.
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Through its performances and dialogue that gaily bubbles, simmering in the appropriate places, watching "Minx" is less about marveling at its period accuracy that witnessing the joy congress between well-rounded characters and a freewheeling mood.
“Minx” is here to have fun. The faux-celebrity cameos can get exhausting — did we really need impressions of Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne? — but for the series regulars, it’s a pleasure just to watch them thrive.
Season 2 can feel disjointed and compressed, as if some connective material was cut to get it to eight episodes (the first ran for 10). But it finishes strong.
Minx has not entirely resolved the issues it could never quite shake in the first season, but it’s still significantly improved. Elizabeth Perkins enters as the magazine’s sugar mama, Constance Papadoplous, who gets to swan around in beehive hairdos and enormous patterned caftans, and two star players who got short shrift last time have bigger roles that now make Minx much more reliable.
What begins as a lighthearted and frothy tale of gender warfare, however, eventually devolves into a preposterous mess, thanks to its desire to imagine yesteryear through an ill-fitting contemporary lens.