An update on the slick 1980 film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring an equally dominating Richard Gere, the series doesn’t remotely live up to its predecessor
. This version of Julian Kay remains a male escort but drops a chunk of the bravado and the craving for the shiny, pricey things in life . Which is all fine and good, but where it falters is in working so hard to give Bernthal’s take on the guy any depth.
As if that weren’t enough to convince the viewer that, yes, a sex worker can have a heart of gold – God forbid – there are repeated, on-the-nose reminders that he wouldn’t dare sleep with male clients. That’s just not his bag. What a relief! Where the show kicks off, new evidence has exonerated and freed Julian after he’s spent years in prison, where he oozed good behaviour and befriended fellow inmates. In one of those on-the-nose moments, he tells a newbie who asks him for protection from his rapist cellmate, “If you just give him what he wants, he can’t take it from you.”
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