With its second season, Joe Swanberg‘s Easy cements itself as the most sex positive show on television. Structured as a series of vignettes as is Swanberg’s style, Easy tells the stories of several couples living in Chicago. The stakes are never too high, and the show perpetually has a day-in-the-life sort of tone running through it.
In Season 2, the series explores a couple (Michael Chernus and Elizabeth Reaser) who decides to explore an open marriage, and a sex positive writer (Karley Sciortino) who is a sex worker on the side. Almost every story and character in Easy ties back to sex in some way. However, the show never feels as scandalous as that sentence may make it seem. By being upfront with its sexual themes, Easy is able to move past the novelty of being steamy on television and actually dive into the complicated ways sex relates to intimacy, understanding, conflict, and power.
- Decider
