Celebrity 
Shameless, in the best possible way.
Let's get the awkward bit out of the way first. Make It Tingle is tropey, predictable and, in places, downright cringeworthy. You'll need to take off your critical glasses, suspend a little disbelief and just go along for the ride.
We have the open-minded man and the conservative woman, raised in a traditional household, who unexpectedly finds herself marketing sex toys. And from there, all the usual tropes follow.
The vibrator that tumbles out of a bag in public. The misunderstandings caused by overheard or misinterpreted conversations. The contrived excuses for physical contact. At times, it's the sort of comedy that has you watching through your fingers.
But — and this is a big but — there's something genuinely refreshing about what this drama is trying to do.
In its own tasteful and often playful way, it refuses to treat sex as something shameful. It brings conversations about desire, pleasure and sexual curiosity out from behind closed doors and into the open, treating them as ordinary parts of adult life.
The writing may be formulaic, and the comedy occasionally painfully awkward, but this drama refuses to package itself discreetly and hide away, just as it refuses to do so with the subject it explores.
It is shameless, in the best possible way. And for that, I give it full credit.
We have the open-minded man and the conservative woman, raised in a traditional household, who unexpectedly finds herself marketing sex toys. And from there, all the usual tropes follow.
The vibrator that tumbles out of a bag in public. The misunderstandings caused by overheard or misinterpreted conversations. The contrived excuses for physical contact. At times, it's the sort of comedy that has you watching through your fingers.
But — and this is a big but — there's something genuinely refreshing about what this drama is trying to do.
In its own tasteful and often playful way, it refuses to treat sex as something shameful. It brings conversations about desire, pleasure and sexual curiosity out from behind closed doors and into the open, treating them as ordinary parts of adult life.
The writing may be formulaic, and the comedy occasionally painfully awkward, but this drama refuses to package itself discreetly and hide away, just as it refuses to do so with the subject it explores.
It is shameless, in the best possible way. And for that, I give it full credit.
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