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- Netflix
- Jun 25, 2021
- Netflix
- Jun 25, 2021
- Netflix
- Jun 25, 2021
- Netflix
- Jun 25, 2021
Sex/Life
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jun 25, 2021
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Positive
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36% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
45
18% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
At its core, “Sex/Life” is a good-looking soap opera about good-looking people who have fantastic lives but seem hell-bent on screwing things up in the name of personal gratification. ... Even as I was rolling my eyes at some of the insanely stupid actions of the lead characters and chuckling at the at-times overwrought score, I can’t deny “Sex/Life” had a certain binge-worthy quality. It’s a soft-core guilty pleasure of a series.
Shahi’s performance is one of the few things to recommend the show. As the scripts send Billie through an emotional maelstrom, she radiates lust, confusion, motherly affection, and determination. She’s game and vulnerable, even as the show’s repetitiveness strains patience. But Sex/Life isn’t all that invested in her character, either.
This is another show that confirms the “sex sells” adage. I only wish the story had the chutzpah to do something different with it.
Shahi is far better than the material she has been given, though the rest of the cast seem to have accepted their cardboard-cutout fate, and I suspect it isn’t meant to be half as funny as it often is.
"Sex/Life" is testing our tolerance to quite a degree with eight hour-long episodes centered on the tried-and-true "bored suburban housewife embarks on a sexual journey" yarn. ... Women deserve better – and Netflix has better in its library, frankly – but it'll do in a pinch.
Sex/Life drowns itself in the shallow end, so to speak, by failing to even generate much heat. There are plenty of R-rated scenes—so many, actually, that they get repetitive.
Thanks to the overwrought Harlequin Romance trappings, there’s a lot more guilt here than pleasure.
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