How Watching a Sex Worker Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Sex

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is about SO much more than sex

Dave Smurthwaite
6 min readJul 3, 2022
Photograph taken from movie: Nick Wall/Sundance + Hulu

I’ve never written a movie review. Nor do I ever plan on writing one.

So be assured that this 3-minute read does not intend to reveal plotlines, character development, or any of the other staples of a quality review.

Instead, it will just be about sex.

More specifically, why anyone who is above the age of sexual accountability should invest 97 minutes of their life watching Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack engage in and around sex:

So what did I learn during Good Luck to You, Leo Grande? I’ll point out five and then let you add a few more for yourself.

(I’d love to hear them in the comment BTW).

All quotes below will be taken from the movie. I won’t include which character is saying them, as it’s not important.

1. Sex isn’t actually about sex

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Dave Smurthwaite

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