‘Obsession’ series review: Richard Armitage’s erotic thriller squanders its potential and produces only a few embarrassing laughs

A scene from ‘Junoon’ | photo credit: netflix

Afterwards beautiful little things, that harrowing and moving, beautiful people linking madly on polished, hardwood floors is just what the doctor ordered as a palate cleanser. so hurry up PassionNetflix’s latest fix for everyone who missed Billy’s sweaty, affluent men end of sex / life,

Junoon Season 1 (English)

Episode: 4

runtime: 33- 43 minutes

Director: Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D’Sa

mould: Richard Armitage, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma, Sonera Angel

Story: A respected surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray in the face of an uncontrolled passion for a mysterious young woman.

and Richard Armitage! Netflix’s so far harlan cobain optimization routine, Hobbit The actors enthusiastically sink their teeth into this completely ludicrous show. Based on the 1991 novel by Josephine Hart, the strokeswhich was made into the critically acclaimed film of the same name, Passion This is the story of a surgeon, William Farrow (Armitage), who has a perfect life until he meets a mysterious young woman, Anna (Charlie Murphy).

The show begins with William performing spectacular brain surgery on conjoined twins. His beautiful, warm, intelligent lawyer wife, Ingrid (Indira Varma), takes him to a celebration at her elegant home, where their son, Jai (Rish Shah) and his new girlfriend, Anna, are waiting to welcome him. have been The sparks fly that only the two characters seem to have – the audience can’t get any sense of the chemistry between Anna and William.

While Ingrid’s father, Edward (Anil Gautam), who is William’s political mentor, plans to launch William into politics, William is busy making cow’s eyes at Anna, who in turn gives him sarcastic, manipulative glances. lets see. Then it’s time for some mild BDSM with Anna firmly saying “It is my choice to surrender to you.” The sex, by the way, is pretty toe-curling. All that moaning, thrusting and attendant eyebrows seem to point to sex as some kind of rocket science or a complicated Ikea assembly.

Anna’s friend, Peggy (Pippa Bennett-Warner) sniffs well while Anna’s mother, Elizabeth (Marion Bailey) is furtively disapproving. Mentions Anna’s brother who died for Luv and Jai’s sister, Sally (Sonera Angel) is supportive and awkward.

There is a holiday in Paris, a mock conference in Brussels, a stag night, a terrible tragedy, shame and scandal in the family and ends with a realtor showing another lovely house. to think that Passion Inspired by the same book that made Star-studded the strokes, Jeremy Irons plays the obsessed surgeon, Juliette Binoche the object of his obsession, Miranda Richardson his wronged wife (she won a BAFTA and received an Academy Award nomination), Rupert Graves his son, Gemma Clarke his daughter, and Harry Potter’s Remus Lupin, David Thewlis. , a detective.

Passion A social and political scandal of this magnitude could have been a fascinating study of the impact of social media. However, it’s not that show, and it’s not such a significant tragedy Passion Good for a few embarrassing laughs.

Junoon currently streams on Netflix

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