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Shailene Woodley’s ‘Three Women’ Improves on the Bestseller With a Candid, Searching Look Into Female Sexuality: TV Review
The Starz limited series, starring Shailene Woodley, adapts the bestseller into a candid, searching look at female sexuality.
But while the television adaptation of “Three Women,” also created by Taddeo and airing on Starz after a vexed, half-decade-long path to the screen, may begin with Gia’s grandiose mission statement, the show soon outgrows — though doesn’t quite move beyond — this inauspicious start. Gia’s subjects share their names, often pseudonyms, with those in Taddeo’s book: Lina (Betty Gilpin), an Indiana housewife who separates from her emotionally withholding husband and reconnects with a married high school ex; Sloane (DeWanda Wise), a beautiful and successful entrepreneur on Martha’s Vineyard whose own spouse likes to watch her get physical with others; and Maggie (Gabrielle Creevy), a North Dakota twentysomething who decides to report her former English teacher for an affair while she was underage. Thanks to Starz, audiences can now witness sex scenes that often unfold over 10 minutes or more — enough time to transition from initial attraction to hesitant engagement to total abandon and back again, with room for the clumsiness and slip-ups that characterize encounters between actual people rather than idealized bodies.
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