{"id":1923,"date":"2017-08-30T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/08\/30\/neurotica-ifcs-web-series-about-a-dominatrix-with-ocd-slaps-the-funny-out-of-fifty-shades-of-grey-watch\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:38:37","slug":"neurotica-ifcs-web-series-about-a-dominatrix-with-ocd-slaps-the-funny-out-of-fifty-shades-of-grey-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/08\/30\/neurotica-ifcs-web-series-about-a-dominatrix-with-ocd-slaps-the-funny-out-of-fifty-shades-of-grey-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Neurotica\u2019: IFC\u2019s Web Series About a Dominatrix With OCD Slaps the Funny out of \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey\u2019 \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the many folks who rolled their eyes at the “Fifty Shades of Grey” phenomenon, there exists a surprising faction of critics: The proudly kinky. Not only did the books and subsequent films get a lot of things dangerously wrong about BDSM, they say, but “Fifty Shades” was seriously devoid of the joy or playfulness that leads many practitioners to don leather bodices and ball gags. That questionable lack of humor is what led Jenny Jaffe to write “Neurotica<\/a>,” a bite-sized series about a dominatrix with OCD currently running on IFC<\/a>’s Comedy Crib.<\/p>\n

The idea began percolating for Jaffe around the time that “Fifty Shades” started taking off. “It was so self-serious and dour,” she said. “There was clearly an appetite for stories about kink, but I found it really strange that the topic gets approached with this really heavy hand. Human sexuality is so expansive and funny, and when it’s good, it’s really fun.”<\/p>\n

Jaffe plays the main character, Ivy, who runs a mom and pop dungeon in her small town of Mapleton, New York. She has a steady flow of satisfied customers who submit to her whims, including the particulars of her OCD and fear of germs. Jaffe wanted Ivy to be sexually confident, rather than using sexuality as a point of anxiety, which she said is often a “shorthand” flaw for female comedy characters. “A lot of times a female character in her twenties will be\u00a0anxious around sexuality or uncomfortable with that aspect of herself,” said Jaffe. “It’s more interesting to make a character very sexually confident, and her anxiety and neuroses come out of something else entirely. I like a confident female comedy character, I think that\u2019s a sort of rarity.”<\/p>\n