What is Obsession about? Based on Josephine Hart’s book Damage (1991), Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Benji Walters co-created the television series Obsession. The series stars Charlie Murphy, Richard Armitage, Indira Varma, and Sonera Angel, released on Netflix on April 13, 2023.
Gaumont Film Company and Moonage Productions are responsible for making the show. Producer Gina Carter is joined by executive producers Matthew Read and Frith Triplady from Moonage and Alison Jackson from Gaumont. Originally titled “Damage,” the cast included Armitage, Varma, Murphy, and Shah in the spring of 2022.
Based on Josephine Hart’s novel of the same name was written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Benji Walters. Damage, released in 1992 and starring Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, and Jeremy Irons, is an adaptation of the book. For her performance, Richardson won the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The show’s directors were Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa. The Twickenham Film Studios set was used in the production.
It has been called an “erotic thriller” and is a four-part series. Lloyd Malcolm, speaking to Zoe Williams of The Guardian about the project’s sex sequences, said, “The book is so particular about the kind of sex they’re having and the way that they do it and how those feed into their relationship.” However, she stressed that “it has to be quite a vanilla version of kink because it’s mainstream TV, but it was really important to me to not be saying anything like: ‘BDSM s*x is bad s*x,’.”
What is Obsession about? The Plot
William is living what most people would consider a dream existence. The media praised his work as a neurosurgeon, namely the successful procedure he performed on a set of twins.
His wife, Ingrid (Indira Varma), is also a successful lawyer, and the couple still seems very much in love after all these years. Now adults, Jay (played by Rish Shah) and Sally (Sonera Angel) are hard-working, family-oriented achievers. And when Ingrid’s dad, Edward (Anil Goutam), pays a visit to the family manor, he’s sure to bring up the idea of his becoming a health czar in the House of Commons.
William sees a stunning young lady at a cocktail party with those same politicians, and she seems to be gazing right through him. Anna Barton (Charlie Murphy) is Jay’s new girlfriend, who introduces herself to him in the pub. After learning about William’s surgical prowess, she becomes enamored with him and doesn’t try to hide her feelings for him. There is little of a fight from William.
For the following several days, he can’t stop thinking about her, and she can’t stop thinking about him. She gets his number from Jay’s phone and puts it in hers, then gives the family a heads-up that she and Jay would be dropping over to “meet” them.
During their rendezvous at the country house, Anna and William can’t put out the flames between them even when no one else is in the room. Anna phones him at work to arrange a meeting, and he accepts. They had a steamy rendezvous in a vacant apartment. They’re both exhausted, but they know that despite their commitments, this won’t be the last time something like this happens.
The Backlash surrounding “OBSESSION”
Critics are generally less enthusiastic about this latest rendition. Critics find the tone uneven and off-putting, calling Obsession “excruciating” and “cringe-worthy.” The sexual tension essential for an “erotic thriller” is often lacking. BBC Culture’s review termed the program “flaccid,” citing the characters’ flat chemistry as the reason.
Some indifferent viewers on social media felt the same way, grouping this program in with the other mediocre options Netflix has been offering as of late. iNews called the program “just another nondescript, unconsidered throwaway piece of streaming that,” Many viewers agreed with that assessment in the review’s comments and on social media.
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