Is HBO Max’s Minx Based On A True Story?
Minx, the new HBO Max series from Ellen Rapoport and Paul Feig, has all the makings of a great new comedy series, and its 1970s setting begs the question of whether it's based on a true story. The answer to this question is more nuanced than it may seem. The new series features Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson starring as a comically mismatched duo while they attempt to make waves in the journalistic world of 1970s Los Angeles. But there’s much more to Minx than that.
Minx primarily follows Lovibond’s character Joyce, an intelligent young feminist from Los Angeles who is determined to shake up a journalism industry dominated by the male gaze with a magazine that publishes articles about feminist issues plaguing women of the 1970s. Unable to swallow the medicine Joyce is peddling, most publishers reject her proposal until she meets Doug, played by Jake Johnson (known to most as the novel-writing Nick Miller from New Girl). Doug, a low-rent smut publisher, suggests that they couple her pieces about feminist issues with full-page spreads of male nudity: a challenge to the male gaze that permeates most of the magazine world.
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Doug’s idea is the core premise of Minx: Joyce and Doug form an unlikely partnership as editor and publisher, the foundation of which creates the world’s first women’s erotic magazine (the eponymous “Minx”), which seems to be heavily influenced by the real-life story of the European publication Suck. Suck, known as the first European Sex Paper, was an indie pornographic magazine that explored sexuality on the queer spectrum, as well as the concept of free love, coupling its erotic imagery with the poetry of Michael McClure and John Giorno. In
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