Sex Life: Season 1 – Unfold

Mira spends the night at Leo’s – no sex. They cook pasta. He braids her hair. She falls asleep on his couch. When she wakes, he’s drawn a bath with rose petals. "You said in Episode 2 you’d never been bathed by someone who actually wanted to see you," he says. Episode 6 ends with her stepping into the water. No nudity shown. Just her face, finally relaxed, as she whispers into her phone: "This is not about Leo. This is about me remembering that my body is not a problem to be managed."

Leo moves into the duplex next door. Tom thinks it’s a coincidence. Mira knows it’s not. Episode 3’s audio log is recorded in her car at 2 a.m.: "He fixed my garbage disposal today. Then he leaned into my ear and said, ‘Still don’t like being told what to do?’ My knees literally buckled. I’m 34. Married. And I just texted him ‘Prague.’" The episode ends with a doorbell camera showing Mira leaving her house at midnight, walking 14 steps to Leo’s door.

Mira and her husband, Tom, have sex on the third Tuesday of every month. Same position. Same sigh. After a particularly mechanical session, Mira locks herself in the bathroom, opens a voice memo app, and whispers: "This is Season 1, Episode 1. I used to come so hard I’d forget my own name. Now I forget why I stopped." She posts it to an anonymous erotic podcast. It gets 12 listens. One of them is her college ex, Leo.