A pornographer and a feminist walk into a bar.
At first, “Minx,” which premiered Thursday on HBO Max, sounds like a bad joke or, worse, a bad porn. Instead, it’s a heartwarming, hilarious workplace comedy about naive, idealistic feminist Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) and Doug (Jake Johnson), a slimy publisher of erotic magazines with a heart of gold … coins, that is. Together, they end up with Minx the magazine, part full-frontal nudes, part feminist screed.
“The Doug-Joyce thing is the engine of the show and I think it’s the engine of the magazine,” 43-year-old Johnson, who plays the foul-mouthed publisher, told the Daily News. “They each offer something valuable to the success of this magazine and I think they need each other to work to move it forward.”
