What does one do on a boring Bank Holiday weekend in the UK? The answer is to plumb the depths of Netflix looking for a series to binge watch.
Luckily, I found this little gem of a series from Poland which I completely enjoyed from start to finish.
I was worried for the first few moments because a series called sexify had nudity on screen within the first 30 seconds and I was concerned that was all we would be getting. Titillation with no real substance.
Thankfully, I persevered, as it actually has a great plot.
Aleksandra Skraba plays Natalia, a tech student with a big brain and even bigger ideas who is working on an app that monitors sleep for her ministry competition project. She is disappointed when her sympathetic professor who believes in her abilities tells her that sleep would not be a sexy enough subject to impress the judges of the competition and that such an idea would sink like a stone.
Going back to the drawing board and influenced by the behaviour of her spoilt and promiscuous dorm neighbour Monika, (Sandra Drzymalska), she instead creates an app called Sexify, in order to help women achieve the ultimate orgasm, convinced that the app will have a genuine human benefit for females all over the world rather than just being another smutty sex app. However, still being a virgin, she has no first hand knowledge on the subject to offer any practical contributions. Her main strengths are programming and research. Therefore, she enlists the help of Monika to help her with the 'practical' elements.
She also brings her best friend Paulina, (Maria Sobocinska), on board, who although sexually actively with her boring, yet safe fiance, has been left thoroughly unfulfilled with his unadventurous lovemaking.
In order to get the successful results they are looking for, they turn their dorm room into a 'copulation station', where fellow students can go for their trysts with their significant others providing they complete satisfaction surveys after the act in order to make the app more accurate. However, our three leads soon get in over their heads as they each start to come to terms with and address their own fears, sexuality and inhibitions.
The show is a bit of a cross between, Risky Business and Silicon Valley and while it does contain a moderate amount of nudity, it is done tastefully and it is not gratuitous and is only really used when the plot requires. It is funny without being silly and heartwarming without being sickly sweet.
The three leads are fantastic and they are believable in their roles and it's great to see their characters get closer as friends and colleagues as the series progresses.
I loved this show and I am hoping that it becomes a hot watch and gets the exposure it needs to secure a 2nd, well deserved season.
Enjoy!
Luckily, I found this little gem of a series from Poland which I completely enjoyed from start to finish.
I was worried for the first few moments because a series called sexify had nudity on screen within the first 30 seconds and I was concerned that was all we would be getting. Titillation with no real substance.
Thankfully, I persevered, as it actually has a great plot.
Aleksandra Skraba plays Natalia, a tech student with a big brain and even bigger ideas who is working on an app that monitors sleep for her ministry competition project. She is disappointed when her sympathetic professor who believes in her abilities tells her that sleep would not be a sexy enough subject to impress the judges of the competition and that such an idea would sink like a stone.
Going back to the drawing board and influenced by the behaviour of her spoilt and promiscuous dorm neighbour Monika, (Sandra Drzymalska), she instead creates an app called Sexify, in order to help women achieve the ultimate orgasm, convinced that the app will have a genuine human benefit for females all over the world rather than just being another smutty sex app. However, still being a virgin, she has no first hand knowledge on the subject to offer any practical contributions. Her main strengths are programming and research. Therefore, she enlists the help of Monika to help her with the 'practical' elements.
She also brings her best friend Paulina, (Maria Sobocinska), on board, who although sexually actively with her boring, yet safe fiance, has been left thoroughly unfulfilled with his unadventurous lovemaking.
In order to get the successful results they are looking for, they turn their dorm room into a 'copulation station', where fellow students can go for their trysts with their significant others providing they complete satisfaction surveys after the act in order to make the app more accurate. However, our three leads soon get in over their heads as they each start to come to terms with and address their own fears, sexuality and inhibitions.
The show is a bit of a cross between, Risky Business and Silicon Valley and while it does contain a moderate amount of nudity, it is done tastefully and it is not gratuitous and is only really used when the plot requires. It is funny without being silly and heartwarming without being sickly sweet.
The three leads are fantastic and they are believable in their roles and it's great to see their characters get closer as friends and colleagues as the series progresses.
I loved this show and I am hoping that it becomes a hot watch and gets the exposure it needs to secure a 2nd, well deserved season.
Enjoy!