Netflix’s Steamy New 8-Part Comedy Tames Streaming Competition

We’ve entered a new heyday for erotic cinema, perhaps for the first time since the 1990s. Audiences were so impressed with The Housemaid that they pushed it to nearly $400 million at the worldwide box office; the movie has also been performing stupendously on streaming. The Housemaid hadn’t even checked out when Prime Video debuted 56 Days, an erotic thriller series starring Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia; the show had been perched at the top of the streamer’s viewership charts until it was overtaken recently by Young Sherlock. Both The Housemaid and 56 Days were released in the wake of titles such as Deep Water, starring Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck,…