Sex/Life (2021)
Time to choose.
A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 25 June 2021 |
| Status | Canceled |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Stacy Rukeyser |
| Starring | Sarah Shahi, Mike Vogel and Adam Demos |
| Seasons | 2 seasons, 14 episodes |
| Episode length | about 48 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 11 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.1/10 |
Where to watch Sex/Life
Sex/Life is streaming on Netflix ($19.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Netflix, or $19.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Sex/Life is a 2021 drama where a suburban mother’s present reality crashes into her wilder past. Created by Stacy Rukeyser, it runs 14 episodes across 2 seasons, totaling 11 hours of watching a woman choose between the life she has and the life she remembers. The tone is a collision course, as the tagline suggests. Sarah Shahi plays the woman caught in the middle, flanked by Mike Vogel and Adam Demos. It is a study in the gap between fantasy and reality, told in 48-minute chunks. The choice is always hers to make.
What the critics said
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 21% approval rating, based on 24 reviews. That is a number that usually implies a fire drill. The critical consensus calls the erotic drama "too obsessed with sex to ever fully come to life." Metacritic assigns it a 45 out of 100, a score that sits comfortably in the realm of mixed or average.
How it did with audiences
There is no box office data to parse, which saves us the usual debate about whether a streaming hit actually pays its rent back. The numbers that do exist are modest. TMDB users rate it 7.1 out of 10.
What came next for the cast
Sarah Shahi moved from The Rookie to Black Adam and Red, White & Royal Blue. Adam Demos swapped one rom-com for another, trading Falling Inn Love for A Perfect Pairing. The credits simply list what followed. They do not claim the show caused the shift.
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Sources
- Sex/Life on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q97671423 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Sex/Life” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Where to watch and prices: Binge Boss, from TMDB watch-provider data (powered by JustWatch) and our own provider list
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