‘Minx’ Creator Ellen Rapoport Talks Researching ’70s Porn for Season 1 and Developing ‘Rich’ Backstories for Season 2

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Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen “A Scintillating Conversation About a Lethal Pesticide” and “You Happened to Me,” Episodes 9 and 10 of “Minx,” now streaming on HBO Max.Working on “Minx” has turned creator Ellen Rapoport into a spam sender.“I got banned!,” says Rapoport, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer. “None of my emails were going through to WarnerMedia for weeks — and then we found out I was placed on some sort of do-not-accept-emails-from list by their IT department because of all the pornography.”By “all the pornography,” she means the pride and joy of Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond) and Doug Renetti (Jake Johnson): Minx, a feminist magazine that doubles as erotica for women.

Joyce dreamed up the magazine as a little girl, first calling it The Matriarchy Awakens and envisioning heady features about issues like birth control access and marital rape.

But when Doug, a porn impresario, is the only publisher interested in her idea, Joyce must meet him in the middle as best she can.

The two butt heads, and eventually erupt: Joyce quits when Doug betrays her trust and brings in a misogynistic public figure as a model to boost sales, and when Doug realizes how badly he’s messed up, he gives her the rights to publish Minx without him.