5.232 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestAt the Minx International launch party, Doug confronts Constance, while Joyce starts to lose control of her magazine. Shelly and Lenny look towards an uncertain future.
An earnest young feminist joins forces with a low-rent publisher to make the world's first erotic magazine for women.
Acting
Jake Johnson's Doug is sleazeball poetry—repulsive yet weirdly lovable.
Writing
Dialogue that juggles dick jokes and genuine ideological debate.
Production
Gloriously tacky 70s set design you can practically smell.
Creator
Ellen Rapoport
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Canceled by HBO Max two weeks after winning a Critics Choice Award, then briefly saved by Starz before dying again. The streaming wars claimed another victim.
Loosely inspired by actual 70s magazines like Viva and Playgirl, which were indeed founded by women but often still controlled by male money—exactly the tension the show mines.
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