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  • Channel 4
  • Oct 5, 2020
  • Channel 4
  • Oct 5, 2020

Summary The Lucy Kirkwood drama focuses on Hayley Burrows (Hayley Squires), a mother of three who also works as a British pornstar named Jolene Dollar. When new girl Amy (Siena Kelly) is injured while filming, Jolene confronts the industry that she had been working in her whole adult life. [Premiered originally in the UK on Channel 4 on 5 Oct...

  • Channel 4
  • Oct 5, 2020
  • Channel 4
  • Oct 5, 2020
Adult Material
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 5, 2020
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
5.2
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Summary The Lucy Kirkwood drama focuses on Hayley Burrows (Hayley Squires), a mother of three who also works as a British pornstar named Jolene Dollar. When new girl Amy (Siena Kelly) is injured while filming, Jolene confronts the industry that she had been working in her whole adult life. [Premiered originally in the UK on Channel 4 on 5 Oct...

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Episode 1 • Oct 5, 2020 • 47 m
Rosebud
Porn star and mum-of-three Jolene Dollar is a poster girl for the industry. But her world is shaken by the arrival on set of new girl Amy and the return of a dark figure from her past.
Episode 2 • Oct 5, 2020 • 47 m
Dry For Wet
Jolene and Carroll try to control the fallout from the party, as Tom is taken to hospital and Amy to the police station. Phoebe is forced to face the music when school discovers what she's done. Gabriel is given some shocking information.
Episode 3 • Oct 5, 2020 • 48 m
Hayley
Nine months after leaving the porn industry behind, Jolene's world is falling apart, with her defamation trial date looming. Can disgraced MP Stella offer her a lifeline?
Episode 4 • Oct 5, 2020 • 56 m
Deep Fake
As Stella fights her corner in court, Jolene is forced to confront her past and goes to extreme lengths to save her family from financial ruin.

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80
Dec 11, 2020
Adult Material is a smart blend of genuinely affecting interpersonal drama, workplace comedy, and it seems like there may even be some crime elements ahead, based on that cliffhanger. It feels like a British Boogie Nights for the digital age, but with a welcome focus on a woman’s experience.
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80
Dec 2, 2020
It was a clever, whip-cracking script by Lucy Kirkwood.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2020
While it starts in a loosely comic tone, Adult Material never lapses into prurience, and over four episodes grows into something sinister, complex and sometimes hard to watch, as Jolene and Amy slide into crisis.
By Ed Cumming FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 2, 2020
Kirkwood’s world is a fully realised one, recognisable to us all (if slightly more semen-spattered than we’re used to). That it often plays at length like a workplace comedy – the bored rattling off of health and safety questions and answers after the shoot (“Did you feel like you were raped during this shoot?” “No”) – means your defences are down when the moments come that confront the business they’re in.
By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW

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17% Mixed
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33% Negative
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