“Sex/Life” is an American drama streaming on Netflix, that was based on the novel written by BB Easton.
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- Sex/Life is an American drama streaming television series.
- Created by Stacy Rukeyser for Netflix.
- The series is inspired by the novel 44 Chapters About 4 Men by BB Easton.
- It premiered on June 25, 2021
- In September 2021, the series was renewed for a second season.
- On January 30, 2020, it was announced that Sarah Shahi was cast to headline the series.
- On March 5, 2020, it was reported that Mike Vogel, Adam Demos, and Margaret Odette were cast in starring roles.
- On August 19, 2019, it was announced that Netflix had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of eight episodes.
- The series was created by Stacy Rukeyser
- She was also the executive producer alongside J. Miles Dale.
- Principal photography for the series was originally scheduled to begin in Spring 2020, but was later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Filming for the series began on August 31, 2020.
- It ended on December 9, 2020 in Mississauga, Canada.
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 23% approval rating with an average rating of 5.63/10, based on 22 critic reviews.
- The website’s critical consensus reads, “Suffocating its more provocative ideas with steamy interludes and melodramatic writing, this erotic drama is too obsessed with sex to ever fully come to life.”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 46 out of 100 based on 10 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
- On September 27, 2021, it was reported that the first season of Sex/Life was watched by 67 million households in its first four weeks since its release on June 25.
- Adam Demos and Sarah Shahi grew close on set and are in a real-life relationship.
- Billie and Cooper’s characters, known as B.B. and Ken in the best-selling memoir, are based on the book author BB Easton and her husband Ken.
- Was considered to be a feature film during very early stages of development.
- Patricia Rozema, who directed a few episodes in this series, also directed some episodes of a similarly-themed HBO erotic drama series Tell Me You Love Me (2007). Coincidentally, that show was also primarily named as ‘SexLife’.
- Brad’s birth year is shown as being 1978. In real life, actor Adam Demos was born in 1985.
- Sarah Shahi’s first full nude debut. Previously she flashed a breast in A Bullet to the Head (2012).
- Showrunner Stacy Rukeyser previously worked with Adam Demos on UnREAL (2015).
- Sarah Shahi revealed in an interview that she had to film several nude sex scenes for days, sometimes with multiple actors in a day, for the sex montage in the pilot episode.
- At first, she said stripping her clothes off scared her to death, but after awhile, she got very comfortable with it. She said, “I had so many nude scenes in succession that by the end, I was just like, ‘Well, a body’s a body.'”
- After that and all the other sex and nude scenes she’s filmed for the show so far in front of so many people, she joked that she could probably walk through the middle of town stark naked and it wouldn’t bother her a bit.
- Sarah Shahi said she called her mom once and told her about all the actors she’s filming sex scenes with that day and her mom joked, “Honey, that’s not called ‘work.'”
- The cast did not use body doubles for any of the sex or nude scenes.
- Sara Shahi and Adam Demos revealed during an interview that they once had to strip off their clothes to film a sex scene by a pool during one of the coldest days in Canada. They said it was miserable. Demos joked that it felt like “minus nine million degrees.”
