did anyone else watch the 50 Shades of Grey programme last night?

[drxerox]

I did until the interviews with the sub/dom couple that seemed to go on and on. I disliked the book, for all the reasons already given on MN, but thought it would be interesting to see some kind of discussion on it (instead of a load of vacuous celebrities giving us their half baked ideas, plus what was basically an advert for Anne Summers). I also found the black and white footage of people acting it out offensive. Perhaps I'm doing it a disservice, and they had a more critical view of it at the end - the most critical it had got by the time I stopped watching was 'it's rubbish, but what the hell, it's just a fantasy, lighten up'.

I watched it and thought the black and white sex scenes were tedious in the extreme. I laughed when one of the commentator's said, 'My safe word? Stop it, you bastard!' Other than that I now know that Anne Summers is enjoying something of an economic rennaissance and that I still don't want to read the book.

I'm another non-fan of the book, would rather not line the author's bulging pockets for such a poor effort (I've read the original pdf which was enough and am following a blog reading the book - in a much more humorous manner - so I don't have to.)

I watched this because I am fascinated as to why people are so smitten by such a genuinely badly written farce about an exceptionally naive girl and her stalker. That isn't erotic in the slightest.

Interested to see the interviews with EL herself, from what I've heard her research was tenuous to say the least and her editor should hang her head in shame. I just don't get it.

Im a non fan too. I was aghast that a programme like this could be made without asking at least one Black Lace author to contribute.

I quite enjoyed it.
I thought the main messages were that it was repetitive and not well written, that the characters and sex scenes were ridiculous. Some women said they found it arousing and most (all?) said they did not fancy anything painful in the sack ta very much. The S&M couple said it represented an abusive relationship rather than an S&M one.
Most said it was very easy to read and page turner style.

It was a fair prog I thought.

Agree SardineQueen It was entertaining enough.
Also agree with you carernotasaint - I have been banging on about the fact that erotica for women is a lucrative genre, and the real question is why and how did this one breakthrough into mainstream, which prog didn't address.