CONVERSATIONS with Friends has finally graced our screens – but viewers aren’t happy about one fine detail.
The new 12-part BBC series explores the lives of two students as they form a complex connection with a married couple.
And the story unpicks big topics like sexuality, morality and politics.
However, the series has been branded “dull” by viewers, with some disgruntled that there aren’t enough sex scenes throughout.
Taking to Twitter, one person fumed: “The sex scenes in Conversations with Friends are just not that great.”
Echoing their comments, someone else said: “Not to be dramatic, but the sex scenes in Conversations with Friends would make you never want to have sex again.”
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While a third remarked: “Hate to sound crude, but there’s just not enough sex going on in Conversations with Friends. Thumbs down from me.”
In the new series, Joe Alwyn plays lacklustre Irish actor Nick Conway, who embarks on an affair with a 21-year-old student named Frances while her best friend Bobbi grows close to his wife Melissa.
Alison Oliver, one of the stars, has said that she had no problem filming sex scenes.
The 23-year-old plays Frances, a Trinity College student in the upcoming TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s book of the same name.
Opening up about filming sex scenes, she said they discussed their scenes with an intimacy co-ordinator.
“There’s a brilliant system in place for it, where intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien will come into a rehearsal with us,” she told Elle.
“We’ll discuss the scene: What’s the trajectory, and what’s the quality of intimacy? And why is it happening? It’s a continuation of dialogue, in a sense.
“It just becomes physical. So, from the get-go, sex scenes were presented to us as you would do a stunt and you’d choreograph that.”
Conversations with Friends is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
