Obsession (2023)

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 13, 2023
Metascore
37

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 4 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Barry Levitt
    Apr 26, 2023
    20
    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.
  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Apr 13, 2023
    20
    Obsession wants to give viewers all the sexy with no story.
  3. i
    Reviewed by: Emily Baker
    Apr 13, 2023
    20
    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.
  5. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Jessie Thompson
    Apr 13, 2023
    20
    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".