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- Netflix
- Apr 13, 2023
- Netflix
- Apr 13, 2023
- Netflix
- Apr 13, 2023
- Netflix
- Apr 13, 2023
Obsession (2023)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Apr 13, 2023
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
37
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Despite a weaker conclusion, Obsession is still a top-tier erotic thriller. It combines the intense physicality of a dangerous relationship with the constant tension that is so vital to a thriller. As a short four-episode series, Obsession is a twisted and tantalizing story that is sure to intrigue all those who enjoy this unique genre.
Murphy, with dark, piercing eyes, a messy bob, and a perpetually forming pout, is the star of the show, and Her performance is one reason why Obsession, adapted by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Benji Walters from Josephine Hart’s 1991 novel Damage, is more than mere sordid spectacle. She brings high intensity, as does Armitage. ... Obsession pays admirable attention to craft, and this makes it a lot easier to take the whole thing seriously. It’s far more cinematic than it needs to be.
Neither the plot story – nor Hart’s original dialogue – map convincingly onto 2023. ... Obsession feels like a story that’s had the stuffing knocked out of it.
A show that fundamentally misunderstands its own main attraction—hot, steamy sex!—by instead delivering some of the most tepid, lifeless sex scenes in recent memory. ... The premise of Obsession is as ludicrous as it is lurid.
Just like Sex/Life before it, this is just another feeble attempt to appeal to our most base instincts and failing to deliver on a climax.
The thinly drawn, two-dimensional characters leave the actors helplessly stranded. Only Varma escapes with her dignity intact. Murphy, so good as Ann Gallagher in Happy Valley, has to play a sexual cipher, while Armitage's performance mainly seems to entail "man trying to not have an erection".
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