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Boring is as good as this erotic drama gets: Netflix’s Obsession reviewed

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

22 April 2023

9:00 AM

Obsession

Netflix

Colin from Accounts

BBC Two

It is, of course, traditional for film and TV reviewers to demonstrate their steely high-mindedness by claiming that anything describing itself as ‘erotic’ is in fact deeply boring. Unfortunately, faced with Netflix’s four-part Obsession, the b-word is hard to avoid – the twist in this case being that boring was as good as the series got.

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