Listen, this is quite sweet. It's also... kinda boring. I think the central issue here is that nothing – and I mean nothing at all – in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande will surprise a viewer who has seen a movie or a play before. This is, in fact, very much like a little two-hander play. It has some good jokes, and I had a good chuckle a couple of times, but the showcase here is designed to be Emma Thompson, and that works well enough. She is fine in this, although, again, none of this will surprise.
What maybe is a tad surprising is that Good Luck to You is mostly sex-positive. This is a good thing all around. And Thompson does get naked for the part, which I found exciting and very body-positive as well as sex-positive.
Still... I was kinda bored. Sex-positivity is great and everything, but must it all be so predictable?
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