Set against the sticky, sun-drenched backdrop of Manhattan during the record heatwave of July 2019, The Intern: A Summer of Lust follows (played by breakout star Liana Stratton ), a 22-year-old journalism major who traded her final free summer for a corporate ladder.

If you want soft-core titillation, watch anything else. The Intern: A Summer of Lust is not sexy. It is erotic in the original Greek sense: eros as chaos, as ruin, as the force that unmakes you. It is a summer blockbuster about emotional constipation, recorded confessions, and the way lust looks in the unforgiving glow of a Bloomberg terminal.