Any assumptions that Apple TV+ is the chaste, button-up streamer just went out the window with this week’s startling, steamy episode of the Cate Blanchett series.
that it would be star-studded but with a chaste network TV approach to sex scenes. While the streamer doesn’t rival the nudity of premium cable like HBO, Showtime, and Starz, Alfonso Cuarón’sfollows suit, swapping murder for a murky version of the past and plenty of steamy scenes within its non-linear narrative. There is a “sexual content” trigger warning at the start of this week’sJonathan Brigstocke is frozen in time.
Archetypes are deployed throughout the first three episodes, which feels purposeful rather than lazy storytelling. The MILF and eager-to-learn teen provide the hot and heavy connection that leads to the streamer’s most sexually graphic scenes to date, taking us on a journey of orgasmic discovery with a very willing student ready to be directed toward bliss. It isn’t quite a Mrs. Robinson scenario, but the age and experience gap is fundamental to the dynamic.
Cuarón constantly moves between framing devices to destabilize, signaling that not everything presented is accurate. Whose version is the right one? Stephen narrates his storyline in the present and past, and Indira Varma offers an omniscient POV, moving between the second and third person in her observations.
Scenes toggle between a seduction that will have Kylie Minogue wondering how her name gets mentioned as much as it does and Nancy’s raw, guttural howling when she identifies her only child. Chopping up material is purposely provocative and whiplash-inducing. While I bristle when filmmakers like Cuarón enter the TV realm and insist they made a “There is a dollop of looking-through-fingers second-hand embarrassment at what quantifies as sultry behavior regarding the central seduction.
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