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But they were also fundamentally in conflict over the objectification of women’s bodies and the representation of female sexuality. This ongoing, if [ever-changing](https://time.com/4071710/playboy-nude-women-feminism/), dispute has filled [op-ed columns](https://time.com/13095/the-duke-porn-star-isnt-as-empowered-as-she-claims/) for [half a century](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,961806,00.html). When TV dips a toe in, it’s usually in the context of a prestige project like David Simon’s HBO period drama [_The Deuce_](https://time.com/4929340/review-the-deuce-hbo/), about the ’70s Times Square demimonde. With that in mind, HBO Max’s feminist-porn comedy _Minx_, premiering March 17, feels kind of bold. Set in the same era as _The Deuce_, but across the country in L.A., it begins with the collision of two worlds at a magazine-publishing conference. Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) is an earnest, naive feminist who’s there to pitch her _Ms._\-but-angrier passion project _The Matriarchy Awakens_. Doug (Jake Johnson) is the scruffy, pragmatic publisher of such titles as _Secretary Secrets_. He shows up with his shirt unbuttoned almost to the navel; she’s in a pantsuit, the collar of her blouse just about grazing her chin. The contrast couldn’t be clearer. Of course, Joyce blows it at the conference, scaring off a newsstand’s worth of male media moguls. But Doug, an eerily shrewd judge of character, sees something in her that they missed. Soon (too soon, but it’s hard to blame creators for rushing to set the scene now that viewers inundated by content are liable to give up after a slow pilot) she quits her day job at _Teen Queen_ magazine, breaks it off with a boyfriend who wants her to give up on her dream, and sets up shop at the headquarters of Doug’s seedy empire in the Valley. She gets to make her women’s-lib mag—but it has to have naked guys in it, and it needs a better name. _The Matriarchy_ is dead; long live _Minx_. What follows is a breezy workplace comedy, with will-they-or-won’t-they elements, whose male-nudity quotient rivals that of [_Euphoria_](https://time.com/5917975/euphoria-makeup-fashion/). Creator Ellen Rapoport, working with a team of executive producers that includes Paul Feig, can be overly glib in acknowledging the uglier aspects of the porn industry. (A throwaway joke about underage models lands with a thud.) The larger historical context rarely comes through. It’s hard to tell whether the show means to depict Joyce’s personal involvement in the thriving movement to which she’s devoted her life as, at best, tenuous. And most characters are written as types more than people: the prissy upper-crust feminist; the crude working-class schlock merchant; the hyper-competent girl Friday (Idara Victor); the ditzy centerfolds, male and female. Yet for all those flaws, I mostly enjoyed the show. True to its title, _Minx_ at its best is a sexy trifle, and the palpable chemistry between its leads counteracts the uptown girl/downtown boy cliché. Johnson, beloved for playing [_New Girl_‘s secretly kind curmudgeon Nick Miller](https://entertainment.time.com/2013/01/30/new-girl-watch-will-they-wont-they-they-did/), was pretty much made for his role. As a showcase for him and for Lovibond, _Minx_ couldn’t be more seductive. 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