‘Minx’ review: 1970s women’s lib and a spectacle of schlongs on HBO Max
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Mar 17, 2022
4 minutes
Looking to get a feminist magazine off the ground, a young woman pitches her idea to a cavalcade of uninterested men. Only one gives her the time of day, and he happens to be a purveyor of porn in the San Fernando Valley. Why not serve up some male nudity along with those serious-minded articles, he suggests? A spoonful of sugar and all that. She hates the idea. Hates it. But having no other options, she agrees. That’s the premise of “Minx” on HBO Max, a snappy workplace dramedy drenched in the sunny glare of early 1970s Southern California.
Beefcakes alongside meaty ideas may sound like an unlikely pairing, but that’s true of the show’s central duo
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