Netflix has decided to put an end to the series ‘Sex/Life’, one of the platform’s biggest surprise hits in 2021, but its recent second season fared much worse in audiences and also Sarah Shahithe great protagonist of the show, did not hesitate to make her discontent very clear just a few days ago on the Not Skinny but not Fat podcast:
I definitely didn’t get the support that I did in the first season from the people involved with the show. It became something very different for me, and I’m not afraid to say it. I struggled with the material. I felt like what the first season had… I’m never going to work for Netflix again after saying all this, but I can’t lie. And it was definitely a challenge.
In the second season, I felt like there were more moments that seemed very contrived. That kind of thing is always very difficult for me to read… But I didn’t have to do it. The boys did it. There were other things that I felt like I couldn’t understand, and it was a challenge. But that’s part of what I do. I’m not always going to get along or agree with a filmmaker. I’m not always going to like what I have to do or say. But that’s my job, to make it believable.
that the decision of the cancellation of ‘Sex/Life’ comes just a few days after those statements by Shahi does not seem a coincidence. It is true that from the platform they have implied that the second season brings the series to a natural end, but we must not forget that it would not be the first time that the platform extends its series much more than necessary.
Created by Stacy Rukeyser from a novel by BB Easto, ‘Sex/Life’ recounted how the life of a married woman with two children changes when her ex from many years ago reappears. That awakens a spark inside her that makes her recover the most rebellious side of her and surrender to her most primal desires.
The truth is Shahi had already committed a few weeks ago to participate in a pilot for ABC, but already then it was made clear that it could continue in ‘Sex/Life’ if it was renewed for a third season. In the end it has not been like that.
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