The Guardian - Minx review – run-of-the-mill comedy is radical on full-frontal nudity

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Minx review – run-of-the-mill comedy is radical on full-frontal nudity

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Ophelia Lovibond and a very charming Jake Johnson star in this comedy about a feminist and a porn publisher who team up to release an erotic magazine for women

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HBO has long been credited with shaping the television landscape as we know it. More recently, it has been credited with something equally revolutionary: levelling the playing field for nudity. After years of women’s naked bodies being objectified on our screens, men are finally also baring all. From the Harry Goldenblatt reveal on And Just Like That to the myriad members of Euphoria, the era of dicks has arrived. And no show is doing more for this moment than Minx.

Staunch second-wave feminist Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) takes her magazine prototype The Matriarchy Awakens to the 1971 Southern California Magazine Pitch festival, where her dreams are patronisingly crushed. That is, until she meets porn publisher Doug Renetti (Jake Johnson), who wants to make the magazine happen.