Summary
Brief English miniseries that addresses with intelligence, sobriety and sensitivity the current small porn industry from the gaze of one of its stars, through the crisis that sooner or later the dark areas of that apparently friendly business will generate in the balance between his life pro like Jolene Dollar and the real Hayley Burrows.
Review:
Hayley Burrows is a woman who reasonably reconciles her work as a star of a small porn production company (with the stage name Jolene Dollar) with the role of her mother (she has a teenage daughter and a child) and her wife. But the debut of a young porn actress in the production company where she works will become the seed of a personal crisis.
The entire beginning of the series scripted by Lucy Kirkwood paints, even with a comedy tone, that idyllic balance between the two worlds of Hayley, that of the porn celebrity and the domestic one, with a husband (Joe Dempsey, the blacksmith of Game of Thrones) who acts as the community manager of the diva's individual porn ventures.
But the appearance of the young Amy (Siena Kelly) in a film will trigger a series of rethinking for Hayley about personal and work issues that she until now had kept in a territory between denial and unconsciousness.
What happens to Amy puts questions that have to do with consent, abuse and health in the mirror, unleashing a deep crisis in the protagonist, an awareness about the cracks and shadows of the apparently friendly work environment of the small porn producer (and not so independent) led by the flamboyant Carroll (Rupert Everett).
Haley suffers a kind of deconstruction of her character Jolene of hers that will have profound repercussions on her personal life and will illuminate her own personal history with a new light. She will contribute to unleash the crisis the meeting with a deputy (great role and performance of Kerry Godliman, whom we already saw in After Life).
Hayley Squires, in a remarkable performance, is the one who puts the body and traces the incredible physical and emotional journey between Jolene, the porn doll with stilettos and not so young anymore, and the Hayley who, from her domestic placidity, suffers the unraveling of his personal life.
In short, Adult Material soberly addresses the current small porn industry from the point of view of one of its stars and the crisis that sooner or later generates its dark areas.
