Eight half-hour episodes deliver on diversity, showing sex in all its messy glory, but the mix of styles is too broad – and some drag on too long
Zahra Newman and Mark Coles Smith in episode six of of Erotic Stories, an SBS anthology series which explores the breadth of sexual experience in the modern age.Zahra Newman and Mark Coles Smith in episode six of of Erotic Stories, an SBS anthology series which explores the breadth of sexual experience in the modern age.
Directed by Leticia Cáceres and Madeleine Gottlieb, SBS’s new anthology series puts the act front and centre through eight stories, each penned by a different writer . Sex is shown in all its messy glory – at times glamorous and stylised, carnal and sticky in others. It is more explicit than what is often shown on Australia’s conservative screens but sex is really the lens through which emotions and relationships are explored.
As with any anthology, there are hits and misses. The first episode, Philia, is the weakest of the lot, following two middle-aged exes, Sam and George , as they cross the boundaries of desire by experimenting with teledildonics.
The push and pull between her and Cara teases out the contradictions of hookup culture, particularly within a lesbian context, where stereotypes such as “U-hauling” are common. A climactic scene between Box and Cormack raises particularly tricky and painful questions about the thin line separating platonic and romantic intimacy – especially when sex has been involved in the past.
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