I feel right mugged off after watching the BBC drama ‘Wanderlust” we were led to believe it was some kind of Sodom and Gomorrah on TV a sex fest well on that score be prepare to be disappointed.
I read Wanderlust was leaving some viewers feeling uncomfortable over racy sex scenes, which left me wondering if I missed something! It was only the first episode. The basics story about this drama if you don’t know as a couple deciding to enter into an open relationship because they are bored of their sex life. Listening to people talking about the subject on TV and the radio they all say it’s not about sex an open relationship but truth it is and a game for people not in love as much as they shout it from the rooftop.
As for the drama the two main characters Toni Collette, plays Joy Richards who we later learn is a therapist married to Alan (Steven Mackintosh) a teacher and they have a problem … in the bedroom where Toni is well up for some action while the laid back Neil is indifference to sex, maybe he sees it as a chore. In the opening scene they undress awkwardly, Joy hands Alan her crutch and undoes her wrist brace, she was injured in a bicycle accident. Then he is on top of her. “Ready?” he asks. “As I’ll ever be,” she replies. The encounter ends awkwardly.
We are really not told why Joy and Alan are having these problems maybe a long marriage we know the bedroom problems the reason could be for a later episode.
After the worthless attempt at sex, the two seem on the same page that leaves them with plenty to think about. Also within the first five minutes a character called Neil is found by a female colleague in his office banging one out (pleasuring himself) while looking at a underwear catalogue. Later his wife finds she is attracted to a woman while watching porn with Neil.
Working from a shed-office at the bottom of her garden, she is dealing with her clients but not her own problems. Her idea to spark up the bedroom is to don some lingerie which looks like something right out of the seventies (see picture) but it didn’t do its job, Alan was tied.
Suddenly Joy and Alan find themselves drawn to new people, and both are tempted to make the ultimate indiscretion. Alan and a teacher colleague end up kissing, did they go the whole hog ‘fourth base’. While Joy is fantasising about sex and as an encounter with a client again do they do the business.
We get the answer as they are lying in bed Alan decides to come clean as he declares he slept with Sally the colleague giving Joy the chance to own up to tossing off (her words) her client earlier. Alan seems overly upset at Joy seeing as what he done with Sally as Joy as to defend herself while reminding him of his dalliance.
When they calm down they talk and we find out some interesting stuff about them but Joy then tells him she doesn’t enjoy sex between them and hasn’t for maybe five years. So they decide to stop sleeping together, having sex and sleep with other people like you do.
Stellar performances otherwise, from Collette and Mackintosh. And it is not just about Joy, Alan and their new sex partners. In addition, some of Joy’s clients, trying to patch up their relationships are interesting.
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