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Sex/Life

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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Ratings

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Sex/Life

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Sex/Life

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: June 25, 2021

Summary: Billie Connelly (Sarah Shahi), a married mother of two fantasies about her more wild past are discovered by her husband in this dramedy based on B.B. Easton’s book named 44 Chapters About 4 Men.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Recent Episodes

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S2:E6. Heavenly Day
Air Date: March 2, 2023
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S2:E5. Future Starts Today
Air Date: March 2, 2023
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S2:E4. The Weakness in Me
Air Date: March 2, 2023

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Metascore

45

Positive:

3

Mixed:

5

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5

Critic Reviews

75

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper

Jun 25, 2021

Season 1 Review: At its core, “Sex/Life” is a good-looking soap opera about good-looking people who have fantastic lives but seem hell-bent on screwing things up in the name of personal gratification. ... Even as I was rolling my eyes at some of the insanely stupid actions of the lead characters and chuckling at the at-times overwrought score, I can’t deny “Sex/Life” had a certain binge-worthy quality. It’s a soft-core guilty pleasure of a series. Read full review

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Rolling Stone

Chris Vognar

Mar 6, 2023

Season 2 Review: Is Sex/Life a little ridiculous? Sure. But it’s also a good deal of overheated fun that manages to think far more progressively than it needs to. Read full review

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Paste Magazine

Katherine Smith

Jun 25, 2021

Season 1 Review: It fulfills its duties as a bodice-ripper of show, pedalling lifestyle porn that still fails to satisfy Billie, but hopes to arouse its viewers with jealousy. ... Still, Sex/Life chases cheap thrills over truly sexy depictions of sexuality. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Roxana Hadadi

Jun 25, 2021

Season 1 Review: The primary failing of “Sex/Life” is its inability to balance the acrobatic-romp and woman-finding-herself elements of this concept; there's so much of the former, and not enough of the latter. ... The pacing of the show is interrupted by that constantly zigging-and-zagging timeline and by its elongation of certain plotlines that would benefit from more precise writing and character development. Read full review

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The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Jul 1, 2021

Season 1 Review: Shahi is far better than the material she has been given, though the rest of the cast seem to have accepted their cardboard-cutout fate, and I suspect it isn’t meant to be half as funny as it often is. Read full review

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Salon

Melanie McFarland

Jun 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: "Sex/Life" is testing our tolerance to quite a degree with eight hour-long episodes centered on the tried-and-true "bored suburban housewife embarks on a sexual journey" yarn. ... Women deserve better – and Netflix has better in its library, frankly – but it'll do in a pinch. Read full review

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Decider

Meghan O'Keefe

Mar 6, 2023

Season 2 Review: Sex/Life Season 2 is an atrocious excuse for art, but it does display creativity where it counts: in the sex scenes. ... Skip it and just go to PornHub. Read full review

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User Reviews

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TonyTalk

Jun 30, 2021

Don't know why everyone is screaming that the show is disgusting. Yes, sometimes it's super inappropriate, but cmon, that is the show about desire and love. You don't need to write down that Billie is stupid, everyone makes what they want. If you hate it, why you watched entire season?

7 of 8 users found this helpful71

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diegobrustolin0

Jul 6, 2021

O show trata muito bem o que deseja inserir aos telespectadores. Algumas contradições, mas nada que faça se tornar ruim.

7 of 8 users found this helpful71

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Exceladeogun

Apr 28, 2023

Sex life

This review will not be based on the first season, as my memory of it isn't sharp enough for me to voice my opinion on it. The second season starts right where the previous one ended, and Billie has ran back to Brad with one request, **** me", and to our surprise Brad rejectsSex life

This review will not be based on the first season, as my memory of it isn't sharp enough for me to voice my opinion on it.

The second season starts right where the previous one ended, and Billie has ran back to Brad with one request, **** me", and to our surprise Brad rejects Billie because he's already expecting a child with a model, Gigi. Billie returns home, and Cooper having placed a tracker on Billie already knows where Billie went, and from that moment their marriage becomes unsalvageable. The series then takes a time jump and shows how Billie and Cooper are co-parenting their children with each parent having a specified number of days with the kids without the presence of the other parent.

The second season of Sex Life is heavily nuanced and doesn't move in a straight line. It bends and weaves through different hurdles. But, even with the meandering nature of the second season's plot, it's better and tighter than the first. There's more emotion, there are more hard decisions. Watching how Cooper disintegrates and becomes a shadow of his former self was beautiful and is very true to how divorce can affect someone. Sasha, Kam and the other supporting characters also help move the story forward, and their characters are fleshed out well. I wish Billie ended up with Majid, but I guess they weren't on the same page, but he was pivotal in helping transit Billie away from her divorce. Ultimately, Billie ends up with Brad (the writers wanted their love to win) and Cooper was able to heal and move on too.

In all, the second season of Sex Life was a beautiful way to end the series, and I'm glad it ended when it did. It was complete.… Expand

7 of 7 users found this helpful70

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  Air Date: March 3, 2023
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