{"id":10409,"date":"2026-07-19T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:52:36","slug":"desire-2026-review-more-hysterical-netflix-erotica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10409","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Desire&#8217; (2026) Review &#8211; More Hysterical Netflix Erotica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"review\" class=\"review-wrapper wp-review-323919 wp-review-star-type wp-review-default-template wp-review-box-full-width\">\n<div class=\"review-desc\">\n<p class=\"review-summary-title\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Desire\u00a0<\/em>is pretty much exactly the movie you expect it to be \u2014 tawdry, unintentionally hilarious claptrap designed to court kinky eyeballs under false pretenses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was going to open this review by wondering aloud why Netflix keeps commissioning movies like <a href=\"https:\/\/readysteadycut.com\/category-film\/desire\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>Desire<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, another in an increasingly long list of tawdry erotic thrillers in the mould established by the <em>50 Shades <\/em>franchise and made mega-popular on streaming by stuff like <a href=\"https:\/\/readysteadycut.com\/2020\/06\/07\/365-dni-netflix-review\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>365 Days<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. But then I realised I already knew the answer; that, indeed, everyone knows the answer. It\u2019s because people keep watching them.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think this says anything especially worrying. Most people are privately \u2013 and sometimes publicly \u2013 pretty sexual, especially behind closed doors, and streaming movies are designed to be consumed in the comfort of one\u2019s own home. They\u2019re cheap to produce because they don\u2019t require much beyond a couple of good-looking actors and a set that resembles a bedroom, and they\u2019re easy to watch because they don\u2019t need to be thought about on any level beyond the obvious. We should probably retire the subgenre, since it never produces any genuinely good movies, but Netflix is never going to let us.<\/p>\n<p>And thus, we have <em>Desire<\/em>, not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/readysteadycut.com\/2020\/07\/15\/dark-desire-netflix-review\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>Dark Desire<\/em><\/strong><\/a> or any number of similar shows and movies with \u201cdesire\u201d in the title. As usual, there\u2019s a lightly forbidden romance at play, this one between a well-to-do woman and her daughter\u2019s younger swimming coach. As usual, the salacious premise spends a while trying to pretend it\u2019s raunchier than it is, excusing some extended but chastely shot sex scenes, and then in the third act everything goes a bit laughably bonkers. You know the drill by now.<\/p>\n<p>Lucero (Ludwika Paleta) and Fernando (Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Yazpik) are, on paper, happily married. They\u2019ve been together ages and are held aloft in the local community as a picture of healthy marital bliss. The problem is that privately they lead a mundane sexless life, and both are openly considering introducing third parties into the bedroom without daring to be the first one to say it out loud. This opens the door for Lucero to pursue a taboo liaison with Matias (\u00d3scar Casas), the new swimming coach of their daughter, Viviana (Pilar Pascual).<\/p>\n<p>Director Teresa Simone does a half-decent job of establishing the fundamentals of this premise. You sort of buy it. There\u2019s nothing unusual about a man who looks like Matias being attracted to a woman who looks like Lucero, any age gap notwithstanding (there are 20 years between them, but when the youngest of the two is nearly 30, and the oldest looks at least ten years younger than she is, I\u2019m not sure the whole thing is quite as salacious as the movie would like). Naturally, though, this is only the start of Lucero\u2019s \u2013 and indeed the movie\u2019s \u2013 problems.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t spoil anything, since part of the fun of <em>Desire <\/em>\u2013 frankly, the <em>only <\/em>fun of <em>Desire <\/em>\u2013 is seeing how determinedly stupid it becomes as it goes. Suffice it to say, there\u2019s a death, a complete reframing of the narrative we think we\u2019re watching, and a bit more besides, including a \u201chappy\u201d ending if you interpret \u201chappy\u201d as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/readysteadycut.com\/2026\/07\/17\/desire-ending-explained\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong>emotionally and morally bankrupt<\/strong><\/a>\u201d. Simone fares less well handling these latter portions, which can\u2019t lean on the sexy framing as much and need to function as a proper thriller. The only spoiler I\u2019ll provide is that they don\u2019t. At all.<\/p>\n<p>The performances are game, if nothing else, especially Paleta, who is burdened with most of the dramatic heavy lifting. Casas\u2019s Matias starts out strong but shifts into a desperate, whiny mode that doesn\u2019t suit him. Fernando kind of drifts in and out of the narrative as and when, but he\u2019s believable in spurts, and Pascual is fine as a pretty, na\u00efve young girl who doesn\u2019t know any better. Hilariously, Lucero and Fernando have a son who, on two separate occasions, I completely forgot existed, which is a bit worrying considering he\u2019s kind of crucial to the plot (albeit in ways that don\u2019t make a great deal of sense).<\/p>\n<p>Movies like <em>Desire <\/em>operate on the basis of enticing kinky viewers with promises of NSFW sex scenes, of which there are only a couple here, and nothing you haven\u2019t seen before. None of the myriad imitators of <em>365 Days <\/em>have ever managed to get close to that movie\u2019s genuine sensationalism, and the efforts are starting to feel a bit embarrassingly half-hearted. When a bit of skin is your primary selling point, and even that\u2019s improperly done, you know you\u2019ve got a dud on your hands. Unless there\u2019s a teeming market for very long, awkward silences that I don\u2019t know about, I can\u2019t imagine this movie making any kind of splash. And that\u2019s assuming anyone can see it, given how underlit it all is. 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