{"id":638288,"date":"2024-09-13T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-candid-take-on-female-sexuality\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:15:00","slug":"watch-a-candid-take-on-female-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-candid-take-on-female-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Candid Take on Female Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fdaa82bd3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fdaa82bd3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-candid-take-on-female-sexuality\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Candid_Take_on_Female_Sexuality%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Candid Take on Female Sexuality&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-candid-take-on-female-sexuality\/#%E2%80%9CA_Candid_Take_on_Female_Sexuality%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Candid Take on Female Sexuality&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Candid_Take_on_Female_Sexuality%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Candid Take on Female Sexuality&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Candid_Take_on_Female_Sexuality%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Candid Take on Female Sexuality&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When journalist Gia Lombardi (Shailene Woodley) announces her intention to pen a magnum opus on \u201csex in America,\u201d the brief sounds overbroad \u2014\u00a0more about the author\u2019s ambitions than any particular findings or interest in the subject. That was this reader\u2019s issue with \u201cThree Women,\u201d the 2019 bestseller by writer Lisa Taddeo, which drew sweeping conclusions about feminine desire and trauma from a small handful of case studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But while the television adaptation of \u201cThree Women,\u201d also created by Taddeo and airing on Starz after a vexed, half-decade-long path to the screen, may begin with Gia\u2019s grandiose mission statement, the show soon outgrows \u2014 though doesn\u2019t quite move beyond \u2014 this inauspicious start. The change in medium, it turns out, rewards both the specificity of Taddeo\u2019s own reporting and the multiplicity of perspectives necessitated by a collaborative form. We no longer experience the namesakes of \u201cThree Women\u201d through one writer\u2019s prose, but through the actors who play them and the directors who construct the visual language of their entanglements, among other contributors. And how better than through sight and sound to explore a topic as inherently tactile as sex?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Gia\u2019s subjects share their names, often pseudonyms, with those in Taddeo\u2019s book: Lina (Betty Gilpin), an Indiana housewife who separates from her emotionally withholding husband and reconnects with a married high school ex; Sloane (DeWanda Wise), a beautiful and successful entrepreneur on Martha\u2019s Vineyard whose own spouse likes to watch her get physical with others; and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy), a North Dakota twentysomething who decides to report her former English teacher for an affair while she was underage. (\u201cThree Women\u201d uses both Maggie and teacher Aaron Knodel\u2019s real names. Each episode featuring Maggie opens with the disclaimer that Knodel was never found guilty and the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> represents her side of the story.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The most significant changes Taddeo and showrunner Laura Eason make are to Sloane. All three characters in Taddeo\u2019s book are white, one of many obstacles to her goal of extrapolating universal <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s from individual stories. (Sloane and a single, unnamed lesbian in Lina\u2019s women\u2019s group, for instance, are the series\u2019 sole examples of queer representation.) Both the show\u2019s Sloane and her husband Richard (Blair Underwood), with whom she co-owns a catering business as well as a magazine-worthy house, are Black. It\u2019s a shift with all kinds of implications for her portrayal as an aspirational figure with an emotional life more troubled than her prosperous surface suggests. To the series\u2019 credit, it follows through on all of them, particularly with respect to Sloane\u2019s family history. Other tweaks, like Sloane\u2019s building attraction to both halves of a local working-class couple, have more of an eye toward injecting active plot into what would otherwise be a static portrait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Across Lina, Sloane and Maggie\u2019s stories, the standout element is the use of intimacy. There hasn\u2019t been a show this formally rooted in female pleasure since Joey Soloway\u2019s \u201cI Love Dick,\u201d a cerebral take on the cult classic novel-slash-memoir from 2017 that now reads like a relic of the streaming era\u2019s pre-austerity largesse. \u201cThree Women\u201d itself has been a victim of the subsequent contraction; Starz picked up \u201cThree Women\u201d in February 2023 after it had been axed by Showtime amid the network\u2019s ongoing struggles. Thanks to Starz, audiences can now witness sex scenes that often unfold over 10 minutes or more \u2014\u00a0enough time to transition from initial attraction to hesitant engagement to total abandon and back again, with room for the clumsiness and slip-ups that characterize encounters between actual people rather than idealized bodies. (A particularly shocking exchange involving the contents of a Kinder egg survives the transplant from the book.) The all-women directing team, with Louise N.D. Friedberg, Cate Shortland and So Yong Kim helming multiple episodes apiece, offers hard proof of the storytelling potential sacrificed by those reflexive cuts to black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Another unifying factor is the use of Gia\u2019s voiceover and, eventually, her physical presence. Like the Netflix series \u201cInventing Anna,\u201d \u201cThree Women\u201d turns a proxy for the original reporter into an active character, juxtaposing her drive to finish the soon-to-be book with her interviewees\u2019 drive to satisfy their erotic and emotional needs. Gia even makes pilgrimage to the townhouse of legendary New Journalist Gay Talese (James Naughton). (The two share an employment history at Esquire magazine.)<strong> <\/strong>She draws an explicit parallel with her book-in-progress and \u201cThy Neighbor\u2019s Wife,\u201d Talese\u2019s own yearslong attempt to understand what goes on behind closed bedroom doors. Yet Gia\u2019s narration proves clich\u00e9-ridden \u2014\u00a0\u201cWe are all in this together\u201d \u2014\u00a0and excessive. I was reminded of \u201cFleishman Is in Trouble,\u201d the FX limited series that retained much of the novel\u2019s prose even as other aspects of the show, like the acting, performed the same function.<strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Gia is better used as a sort of fourth woman, with her own parental baggage (she lost both her mother and father by her early 20s) and chaotic relationships. Taddeo co-wrote the fifth episode with her now-husband, Jackson Waite, and the show fictionalizes their relationship, an impulsive hookup that grows more serious as Gia gets pregnant and Jack (John Patrick Amedori) follows her around the country. But Gia\u2019s arc feels less complete than the others, ending abruptly and leaving some key details unclear. Rather than more fully reorder itself around her research process, \u201cThree Women\u201d largely retains the structure of the book, with each lead anchoring her own installments comprised of her backward-looking memories. As a result, Gia\u2019s own storyline is nonlinear, and therefore somewhat jumbled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But what Gia, and before her Taddeo, has found on her cross-country voyage <em>is <\/em>worthwhile. Gilpin, so great on the cruelly cut-off \u201cG.L.O.W.,\u201d enlivens Lina\u2019s sense of self-discovery, making clear her journey is more about reawakening a personal sense of pleasure than her callous, philandering dud of a partner. Maggie\u2019s experience is treated with all the delicacy the material demands. \u201cThree Women\u201d takes her desire for Aaron (an insidiously charming Jason Ralph) seriously, even as it\u2019s careful to assume the vantage point of an adult Maggie who\u2019s come to grasp the power dynamics at play. Sloane may lead the most exotic lifestyle on paper, but just as the Vineyard enters a wintery offseason when most of her drama plays out, no one is always at their camera-ready best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThree Women\u201d makes its impact by digging deeper into these complicated lives, not by zooming out into <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ities or working to tie them together. There\u2019s more than enough insight into how women relate to sex under patriarchy in Lina fumbling with a vibrator as her kids play outside the laundry room, or Sloane walking out of a tense family confrontation straight into her next bad decision. Gia makes the introduction, but the eponymous trio are each a world unto themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>The first episode of \u201cThree Women\u201d is now available to stream on the Starz app, with new episodes releasing weekly on Fridays.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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