This awful show is a prime example of style over substance, it looks great, beautifully filmed, costumes are wonderful, Tangier looks exotic, and the locations and sets are sublime.
Sadly that's where any praise must end. The story is trash and most of the acting belongs on daytime soap opera.
It labels itself as erotic drama but it lacks all eroticism and drama. The central character, ably played by Juno Temple, never experiences a grand sexual awakening nor experiments in any way that could be described as taboo or kinky.
Why does that matter, you ask? It matters because that's how the show has marketed. Anais Nin wrote some wonderful, and usually semi autobiographical erotica but this show discards all of that in favour of mediocrity and plays it very safe.
There are two scenes where we see a sexual side to the lead character but both end abruptly and go nowhere.
What is billed as an erotic drama bizarrely slides into a spy story about arms dealers.
Definitely one to avoid.
What is billed as an erotic drama bizarrely slides into a spy story about arms dealers.
Definitely one to avoid.