Netflix’s ‘Sex/Life’ Wastes Its Cast on a Poorly-Sketched Story: TV Review

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThough it’s plenty punishing, AMC Plus’ new limited series “The North Water” has something richly escapist about it: The show, set on a whaling ship in the 1850s and shot within the Arctic Circle, creates a sense of chilliness that will permeate one’s bones on even the hottest summer night.In this adaptation of Ian McGuire’s historical-fiction novel, Jack O’Connell plays Patrick Sumner, a British army surgeon running from his past; he signs on to be a doctor on a

Friends forever! The cast of Sex/Life might portray controversial characters onscreen, but off screen, they are a close-knit group.

OMG! The latest viral TikTok trend has made its way to Hoda Kotb’s desk. Her Today show cohost Jenna Bush Hager decided that Kotb, 54, would be a perfect subject for the current trend while they were between takes on the NBC set.

We can all stop wishing it a long life: the new flesh is thriving, living rent-free in Julia Ducournau‘s fucked-up titanium brain, oozing from every frame of her bizarrely beautiful, emphatically queer sophomore film, and thence seeping in through your orifices, the better to colonize your most lurid, confusing nightmares, as well as that certain class of sex dream that you’d be best off never confessing to having.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRonan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein — first his coverage in The New Yorker in 2017, then his metacoverage of what it took to get that story in his 2019 book “Catch and Kill” — helped to crystallize and define a moment in American cultural life.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticFX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” is a master class in extending a slight premise boundlessly outward. That series, based on Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s film, imagines a comic universe in which ancient vampires make their way through humdrum lives stripped of Transylvanian glamour in modern New York City.

Channel Four programme were left feeling very awkward as they showed scenes from the new Netflix drama Sex/Life. Some of the celebs themselves were visibly uncomfortable watching the risqué storyline unfold.

Netflix's steamy new drama, , quickly became the talk of the streaming platform after it premiered on June 25 -- and for good reason.The show tells the compelling, yet equally sexy, story of Billie Connelly (Sarah Shahi), a stay-at-home mother of two who finds herself longing for her wilder days as a single woman in New York City. While Billie's life with husband Cooper (Mike Vogel) is comfortable, she finds herself dreaming of what could have been with her ex-lover, Brad (Adam Demos).

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticChristopher Duntsch, the onetime Dallas neurosurgeon whose butcher-like techniques killed two patients and permanently injured more, feels made to exist at the center of a work of fiction; perhaps, to our eye, he might seem to belong to the realm of make-believe more than to our real world. That creates a problem for “Dr.

If you’re one of the millions who have already tuned into Netflix‘s latest hit, Sex/Life, you already know the show is full of surprises.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticYour inclination towards “Schmigadoon!,” at least in its early going, will likely be determined by your reaction to its title.If you think it’s a clever, charming wink to “Brigadoon” — the Lerner and Loewe musical about an enchanted village, don’t you know? — then you may very well be along for the ride from the first moment.

Courtney Howard A hapless romantic learns about the dangers of procrastination while attempting to save his crumbling marriage in “Long Story Short,” Australian actor Josh Lawson’s harmless, heart-filled follow-up to his 2014 directorial debut, “The Little Death.” Though the high-concept relationship movie frequently trips over its own well-meaning sentiments, the sweet, earnest performances and sharp technical craftsmanship deliver a blissful feeling when the material comes up short.Teddy

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“RuPaul’s Drag Race” features some of the most irreverent and boundary-pushing talent in entertainment. But, at its core, it’s a show that is deeply in love with old-school television.

steamy TV show Sex/Life has topped the charts and sparked plenty of online debate surrounding the topics of divorce, toxic masculinity and of course, sex. The American drama created by Stacey Rukeyser was inspired by BB Easton’s 2016 memoir, 44 Chapters About 4 Men and the first series came out on 25 June 2021.

season 3 in just a little over a week and it's time to meet the 12 islanders entering the villa for their shot at love -- the $100,000 grand prize.

If you didn’t know already, Sex/Life co-stars Sarah Shahi and Adam Demos are dating in real life!

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThese days, family TV loves nothing more than a planet in peril.On Netflix, for instance, kids may have recently watched a group of hybrid children undergo a population-decimating pandemic on “Sweet Tooth,” a team of extraordinary children attempting to save London from the supernatural in “The Irregulars,” and a kid superhero face down cataclysm in “Raising Dion” — to name just a few. While imagining kids with unique powers is hardly new (ask J.

Megan Barton-Hanson has noted that it would be "much juicer" for Love Island to feature an LGBT+ line-up. Speaking ahead of the new series launch on June 28, the bisexual 27 year old, who appeared on the show back in 2018, blasted the show for being "predictable" while urging for an "all gay line-up".

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticA year ago, HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” emerged as something truly special — a true-crime series with a sense of probing curiosity that extended beyond the lurid. Based on the work of the late writer Michelle McNamara, the series achieved a sort of double feat.