{"id":12345,"date":"2025-11-17T20:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:40:32","slug":"how-hbo-maxs-seduction-inspired-by-dangerous-liaisons-offers-a-female-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=12345","title":{"rendered":"How HBO Max\u2019s Seduction, inspired by Dangerous Liaisons, offers a female perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/17\/d5138d76-ed2f-4614-9407-d8e4257d8276_19d514f8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWelcome to the delicious hell that is high society,\u201d beckons the trailer for <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Seduction<\/em>, HBO Max\u2019s steamy new French-language drama inspired by <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Dangerous Liaisons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When most of us last saw the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, she was in her own private hell, wiping white powder off her tear-stained face. This 18th-century Parisian socialite, memorably played by Glenn Close in the 1988 Stephen Frears movie, was ruined every which way \u2013 schemes exposed, reputation in tatters, shamed and booed at the opera.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Well, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Seduction<\/em> has something to say about her story \u2013 or at least, her backstory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest adaptation of the 1782 epistolary novel <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Les Liaisons dangereuses<\/em> by Choderlos de Laclos is somewhere between a prequel and a remake, retaining much of the main story but taking a radical detour into the female gaze.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In other words, \u201cit\u2019s the #MeToo of the 18th century\u201d, says director Jessica Palud about the six-episode miniseries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">So how does one make a #MeToo version of a society where men had all the power \u2013 and the swords, too?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3333079\/how-hbo-maxs-seduction-inspired-dangerous-liaisons-offers-female-perspective?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWelcome to the delicious hell that is high society,\u201d beckons the trailer for The Seduction, HBO Max\u2019s steamy new French-language drama inspired by Dangerous Liaisons&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4120,471,2441,3674,9811,9810,1906,6517,9052],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-dangerous","tag-female","tag-hbo","tag-inspired","tag-liaisons","tag-maxs","tag-offers","tag-perspective","tag-seduction","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}