{"id":432885,"date":"2026-05-09T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/432885\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:13:14","slug":"imogen-poots-and-john-reynolds-are-your-sex-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/432885\/","title":{"rendered":"Imogen Poots and John Reynolds are your Sex Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as TV adaptations of well-loved modern comics go, we\u2019d kind of assumed it\u2019d be a while before Hollywood really got serious about Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/image-s-sex-and-sex-criminals-use-eroticism-to-build-ri-1798276086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sex Criminals<\/a>, what with its premise relying on the Standards And Practices-terrorizing question \u201cWhat if time stopped every time you had an orgasm?\u201d But here we are, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/imogen-poots-john-reynolds-sex-criminals-series-comic-1236887276\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline\u00a0confirming the news<\/a>: Imogen Poots and John Reynolds are your new Sex Criminals, courtesy of Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, Hollywood has been flirting with the idea of taking the series\u2014in which young singles Suzie and Jon hook up, realize they\u00a0both\u00a0have the power to stop time when they climax, and then take the obvious next step of using this ability to rob banks\u2014into the TV realm for nearly a decade at this point, although no further movement was detected until this January. That was when it was revealed that husband-wife team Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon were developing the show, with Nanjiani in a starring role; it\u2019s now been revealed that that doesn\u2019t\u00a0mean he\u2019ll be playing male lead Jon, but will still co-star in the series. (Also being developed with filmmaker and occasional comics guy Tze Chun.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll note, in passing, that Poots and Reynolds both feel like extremely spot-on casting: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-chronology-of-water-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chronology Of Water<\/a>\u00a0star has an energy that matches Suzie\u2019s wry, mischievous take on both sex in general and her powers specifically, while Reynolds is simply a dead-on physical match for the bookish, somewhat awkward Jon. (He also seems like the kind of guy who doesn\u2019t mind standing around with a glowing penis, which is just one of the first ways Fraction and Zdarsky\u2019s comic makes \u201ctime stops when you fuck\u201d even weirder than it might initially seem.)<\/p>\n<p>Sex Criminals\u00a0is set to run for eight episodes on Prime Video. The original comic series went for 31 issues between 2013 and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As far as TV adaptations of well-loved modern comics go, we\u2019d kind of assumed it\u2019d be a while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-432885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}