As a comic book obsessive, I tend to get extremely excited once book-to-screen adaptation plans are revealed, even knowing this process usually takes far longer than traditional adaptations, and often results in ditched projects. Case in point: Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's brilliant crime romp Sex Criminals has faced a long and veiny road ahead of Prime Video stepping in to secure it for a TV series starring Kumail Nanjiani. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be in danger of disappearing, as evidenced by the co-creator's A+ update.
As The Boys Season 5 is wrapping up ahead of a final run on the 2026 TV schedule, Amazon MGM isn't putting the brakes on its hyper-mature live-action comic adaptations, and fans can expect to see a similar amount of unencumbered nudity in Sex Criminals, given its very premise. The project’s current status was only just unveiled in late January, and Tze Chun (who co-created with Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon) has already sent my expectations soaring with his first big behind-the-scenes update on Instagram. Nobody’s spinning any wheels waiting to get started, as he shared:
