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20 steamy TV shows that could be your next guilty pleasure

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Photo: Still from 'Obsession' on NetflixWatch1/20Photo credit: Prime VideoDaisy Jones &amp; The SixTaylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel Daisy Jones &amp; the Six was turned into a novel, and fans were over the moon. It’s the 1970s, the era of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and that’s exactly what we get in this show. The bonus is that the entire cast is absolutely beautiful.As we go through the whirlwind rise and fall of this fictional band – allegedly drawing inspiration from the break-up of the real legendary band Fleetwood Mac – it’s easy to get lost in the story while enjoying the intimate scenes.Watch here.&nbsp;2/20Photo credit: NetflixLady Voyeur (Olhar Indiscreto)Watch here.&nbsp;3/20Photo credit: NetflixFake Profile (Perfil Falso)Fake Profile, or Perfil Falso, is a wild telenovela-style Colombian show that stays true to its genre. With cunning plots, deep-rooted family mysteries, and intricate love dynamics, all of which unravel with the drama and fanfare of a hit Ektaa Kapoor TV show.The story centres on a Las Vegas erotic dancer who, under false pretences on a dating app, is romanced by a super fancy, high-flying surgeon only to find out later that he is a married man with two kids. The dating app is called Spice, and well, that should be indicative of what follows next.There are love triangles (and more shapes), dalliances and scorned lovers out for revenge. It has all the ingredients to get you hooked. A good script, however, may not be what you’re looking for here.Watch here.&nbsp;4/20Photo credit: Jio CinemaThe IdolWatch here.&nbsp;5/20Photo credit: NetflixObsessionWatch here.&nbsp;6/20Photo credit: NetflixQueen&nbsp;Charlotte:&nbsp;A Bridgerton StoryWatch here.&nbsp;7/20Photo credit: Disney+ HotstarThe Bear&nbsp;This series centres on a super successful young chef (Jeremy Allen White) who returns to his hometown to revive his late brother’s floundering sandwich shop filled with quite a motley crew of staff. For a show with no real nudity or sex scenes, it’s got a lot of people sweating.Maybe it’s Allen White’s form-fitting t-shirts, tattoos and dishevelled hair, or the fact that you just want to give him a hug (and more) when he tries to do good by his late brother while also being a bit of an ass.TV writer Alex Zaragoza put our feelings into words best when she tweeted, “I’m too scared to watch The Bear because I’m actively in therapy to stop falling in love with men who look like this.” We hit the ‘like’ button on this one while emotionally dry heaving.Watch&nbsp;here.8/20Photo credit: Amazon Prime VideoThe Sex Lives of College GirlsThe series focuses on four girls at Essex College who are exploring their identity and sex lives on campus. The series by Mindy Kaling offers up likeable and relateable leading ladies with vastly different personalities.Difficult topics are tackled in the show, such as sexual harassment, gender and sexual identity, and taboo sexual relations between a student and teacher. But it’s handled with empathy and in a realistic way. This show has a humourous vein running throughout with a slew of intimate scenes – a given considering the show’s title. But as critic John Doyle notes, it’s anchored by emotions, fun, and friendship rather than the raunchy nature of it all.Watch here.9/20Photo credit: Amazon Prime VideoConversations with FriendsThe Hulu series adapted from Sally Rooney’s book of the same name features an incredibly good-looking cast. It tells the story of two ex-lovers turned best friends, played by Sasha Lane and Alison Oliver, who get into an entanglement with an older married couple, played by Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn. The love… quadrangle includes a lot of kissing, nudity, groans and moans.But what makes an intimate scene written by Sally Rooney so steamy? It’s probably her characters’ inability to communicate their longing. There’s plenty of build-up – a stolen glance here, gentle caresses, even cold beer bottles pressed against warm skin. It’s those small moments that really make the steamy scenes pay off.Watch here.10/20Photo credit: NetflixNever Have I EverAnother hit series by Mindy Kaling, Never Have I Ever places horny teenagers at the centre of the plot from the get-go.Our protagonist Devi, played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, is crushing hard on the school hunk Paxton Hall-Yoshida, played by Darren Barnet and decides that it’s time to up her social quotient by losing her virginity.But as 15-year-old navigating grief, high school and her own mixed identity, it’s easier said than done. Watch it for the South Asian representation, a throwback to your hopping high school hormones or the highly relatable and at times hilarious family dynamics.Watch here.11/20Photo credit: NetflixShe’s Gotta Have It&nbsp;If you’re a believer in ‘the more the merrier’, then this is a show you will thoroughly enjoy. Created by Spike Lee, based on his 1986 film of the same name, the show focuses on the escapades of Brooklyn-based artist Nola Darling who is trying to cement her identity in the world while managing her relationships.She grapples with her own identity, her friends, and her three male lovers. Darling is polyamorous, and each of her lovers is vying for her attention, attempting to make her commit to them alone. But through the back-and-forth you get a lot of intimate scenes that Lee films beautifully.Watch it here12/20Photo credit: NetflixLove, Death + Robots&nbsp;The adult animated anthology has given us several memorable shorts over the years. Some are hilarious, others apocalypti,c and some deserve a top-tier spot in the steamy TV shows section.There are raunchy almost-sex scenes and straight-up sex scenes interspersed with violence and dystopian landscapes with lots of nudity. But there’s something about it being animated yet so life-like that makes things saucy even if the overall theme of the short has nothing to do with sex.For example, the erotic dance sequence in Albert Mielgo’s Emmy-winning The Witness,&nbsp;and the hyper-realistic intimate shots in Beyond the Aquila Rift and Sonnie’s Edge. A new crowd favourite came again from Mielgo in Volume 3 titled Jibaro (photographed above). The toxic relationship between a gold-laden siren and a deaf warrior had the internet bewitched. Even without nudity, it’s the pull between the protagonists and the fraught nature of it all that leaves your toes curling in an ‘I probably need therapy for finding this hot’ way.Watch here13/20Photo credit: Lionsgate Play Hiccups and Hookups&nbsp;A remake of the Hulu series Casual, Hiccups and Hookups is a light-hearted almost endearing show that raises temperatures not with any nudity – it’s all pretty PG – but with its plotline.Our protagonist, played by Lara Dutta, is a middle-aged, recently separated woman, living with her brother and teenage daughter. Back in the dating scene, she’s out to explore her newfound singlehood through dating apps, set-ups, and casual encounters with men of all ages while trying to figure out what exactly she wants.Some people were up in arms because of the sexual nature of the storyline, but there isn’t any nudity or depictions of penetration in this show. It’s the openness with which a woman, mother, and former wife, is embracing and freely talking about her sexuality which has people either screaming foul or cheering along for finally having that portrayed on Indian screens.Watch here.14/20Photo credit: NetflixBrave New World&nbsp;Diehard fans of Aldous Huxley were disappointed in the TV rendition of the cult classic book but given just how layered the book’s narrative is, it was always going to be a challenge to do the source material justice. So go into this show with an open mind.The story is set in a dystopian world where people are divided into different categories which determine their function in society. There is peace among members, as long as you accept your place and role, and give up on the idea of privacy or monogamy. No one commits to anyone else in this world as pleasure is placed centre stage. ‘Alphas’ can claim ‘betas’ at will for a naked frolic around the park and orgies are pretty much a regular occurrence in this world. All is well, that is until some members decide to ask questions.The narrative teeters on the mundane after a point (especially compared to the richness of the book), but the futuristic world that the show creates is a spectacular sight to behold.Watch here.15/20Photo credit: NetflixThe WitcherPeople questioned Henry Cavill’s casting as Superman, but as Geralt of Rivia, the stoic, grumbling, mutated monster hunter for hire — the eponymous ‘Witcher’ – he was welcome with open arms. But that could have less to do with his acting and more to do with him being naked and broody through the show.If naked Cavill doesn’t have you convinced (we get it, sometimes you need the plot to go along with the eye candy) then maybe the fictional land known as ‘The Continent’ will have you hooked.The show is based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s book series and features rivalries between kingdoms, witchers, sorceresses, and cursed monsters, all woven around the Witcher in question.Watch here.16/20Photo credit: NetflixSex/LifeThis show definitely lives up to its name. There’s a lot of sex, graphic sex. It’s based on BB Easton’s memoir 44 Chapters About 4 Men, though the show amps up the drama. We follow married housewife Billie, played by Sarah Shahi, who has a seemingly perfect life: a lovely, handsome husband who’s an investment banker and two children that keep her occupied at home. But she’s also going stir-crazy in this domestic life.It triggers a midlife crisis as she starts to think back on her previous relationships and wild-child youth.&nbsp;Going through her past life, she fixates on one particular leather-jacket-wearing, motorcycle-driving bad boy ex Brad, played by Adam Demos, and she starts journaling more about her relationships.Her husband stumbles across the journal on her laptop where she goes into great detail about her current boring sex life and her thrilling past with her ex. Brad comes back into her life and Billie’s torn between the life she has with her loving husband and what she misses with her unstable ex. There’s a lot of typical melodrama in this show to keep you watching, but there’s also what one side of the internet describes as just plot-driven porn. Hey, whatever works for you, we’re not judging.Watch here17/20Photo credit: NetflixDark DesireDescribed as an erotic thriller, this Mexican telenovela is dark, sexy, and requires you to suspend your belief in the laws of reality just a bit while watching the show. The plot is essentially a murder mystery.You follow the protagonist Alma, played by Maite Perroni, as she tries to uncover the truth about the death of her best friend Brenda, played by Maria Fernanda Yepes. The police ruled it a suicide, but Alma thinks otherwise. Through the course of her detective work, dark secrets are unearthed, all interspersed with a lot of nudity and sex. Is it Alma’s husband who killed Brenda? Maybe it’s her brother-in-law who is also Brenda’s lover? Or maybe it really was a suicide as the police say, but the reason behind it remains unknown.If you’re fond of erotica and crime, this show is definitely a must-watch.Watch here.18/20Photo credit: NetflixBodyguardIt’s the whole fantasy of will-they-won’t-they, employer-employee, forbidden relationship vibe of this show that caught viewers’ fancy. Also, two very good-looking protagonists are played by Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.Madden portrays police sergeant David Budd, a war veteran with PTSD enlisted to provide security to Home Secretary Julia Montague (Hawes). With opposing political viewers, you can almost see the romantic trope of enemies-to-lovers playing out. Madden is stoic and mopey while Hawes is independent and ambitious. And just as they get together, everything starts to fall apart.Listen, you can be a strong independent woman and still get butterflies in your stomach (and more) fantasizing about a man in uniform protecting you from the big bad world.Watch here.19/20Photo credit: NetflixEliteThis is one ‘teen’ show you don’t want to watch with your teen (). The Spanish thriller show is set in a fictional elite private school. Samuel, Nadia, and Christian, played by Itzan Escamilla, Mina El Hammani, and Miguel Herran, respectively, are working-class students who end up getting through to the exclusive school through a scholarship after their own school building collapses, and soon come head-to-head with their wealthier, snooty classmates.But the clash ends in a murder and the show goes through time jumps as you watch the student’s interactions. Secrets come up, sexual escapades unfold and tensions rise as envy grows.Watch here.20/20Photo credit: NetflixOutlanderWhat list of steamy TV shows would be complete without a mention of Outlander?The historical drama is based on Diana Gabaldon’s book series and follows Claire Randall, played by Caitriona Balfe, a WWII nurse who accidentally travels back in time to 18th century Scotland where she meets the true love of her life — highlander Jamie Fraser, played by Sam Heughan.Along with trying to change historical events (they find themselves embroiled in the Jacobite uprisings), the show’s characters find plenty of time to make wild, rambunctious love. Some bordering violence and assault, so this isn’t a show for the weak of stomach. Watch for the sex, stay for the scenic vistas of Scotland and the accents.Watch here.

Photo: Still from 'Obsession' on NetflixWatch1/20Photo credit: Prime VideoDaisy Jones &amp; The SixTaylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel Daisy Jones &amp; the Six was turned into a novel, and fans were over the moon. It’s the 1970s, the era of sex, drugs, rock and roll, and that’s exactly what we get in this show. The bonus is that the entire cast is absolutely beautiful.As we go through the whirlwind rise and fall of this fictional band – allegedly drawing inspiration from the break-up of the real legendary band Fleetwood Mac – it’s easy to get lost in the story while enjoying the...

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