{ "id": "ep383k8xmh", "slug": "sexify", "title": "Sexify", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy", "label": "Sitcom and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy.world_comedy_series", "label": "Comedy series outside the US and UK", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy.world_comedy_series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy.world_comedy_series.yr-1964-2021", "label": "Premiered 1964 to 2021", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy.world_comedy_series.yr-1964-2021" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Eastern Europe · 2021 and later: Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "path": [ { "id": "geo.eeu", "label": "Eastern Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021", "label": "Eastern Europe · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.eeu.t2021.culture.performance.screen.series" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Sexify is a Polish Netflix comedy-drama series (2021–2023) by Kalina Alabrudzińska and Piotr Domalewski, starring Aleksandra Skraba, Maria Sobocińska, and Sandra Drzymalska as students building a female-orgasm app; two seasons, 16 episodes.", "snippet": "Sexify is a Polish Netflix comedy-drama series (2021–2023) by Kalina Alabrudzińska and Piotr Domalewski, starring Aleksandra Skraba, Maria Sobocińska, and Sandra Drzymalska as students building a female-orgasm app; two seasons, 16 episodes.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv_comedy.world_comedy_series.yr-1964-2021", "markdown": "# Sexify\n\n**Sexify** is a Polish comedy-drama television series produced for Netflix, in which three female university students in Warsaw develop a mobile app designed to optimize the female orgasm as their entry in a student start-up competition. It was created for the platform by Kalina Alabrudzińska, Małgorzata Biedrońska, and Piotr Domalewski, directed by Alabrudzińska and Domalewski, and produced by Akson Studio.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/) • [2](https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/121544-netflix-announces-polish-commissions) The first season premiered on April 28, 2021, and a second and final season followed on January 11, 2023, giving the series two seasons and 16 episodes in total.[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470) • [4](https://usa.newonnetflix.info/info/81140470)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Polish-language comedy-drama (dramedy) on Netflix; 2 seasons, 16 episodes, TV-MA rating[5](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/sexify) |\n| Premiere | Season 1 on April 28, 2021; season 2 on January 11, 2023[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470) • [4](https://usa.newonnetflix.info/info/81140470) |\n| Creators/directors | Kalina Alabrudzińska, Małgorzata Biedrońska, and Piotr Domalewski; produced by Akson Studio[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/) • [2](https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/121544-netflix-announces-polish-commissions) |\n| Lead cast | Aleksandra Skraba as Natalia Dumała, Maria Sobocińska as Paulina, Sandra Drzymalska as Monika Nowicka[5](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/sexify) |\n| Premise | A sexually inexperienced programming student and her friends build an app to optimize the female orgasm for a tech competition[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470) |\n| Reach | Reached top-10 lists in over 80 countries and ranked first in 20 of them, per its producers in July 2021[6](https://film.wp.pl/producenci-sexify-mowia-seks-jest-okej-widac-jak-bardzo-bylo-to-polakom-potrzebne-6661200959859424a) |\n| Reception | Season 1 scored 83% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (6 reviews); the series holds a 6.5/10 IMDb rating[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sexify) • [5](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/sexify) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and characters\n\nNatalia Dumała (Aleksandra Skraba) is a 23-year-old computer science student who knows a great deal about programming and very little about sex. When a professor gives her troubling news about the app she is building for an inter-university tech competition, she pivots to a new idea: an application, named Sexify, that optimizes the female orgasm and helps women understand their own bodies and needs.[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470) • [8](https://blog.polityka.pl/seryjni/2021/04/28/sexify-udany-polski-serial-netflixa-i-to-komedia/) • [9](https://serialowy.pl/recenzje-seriali/sexify-recenzja-serialu-22689/) Because she is clueless on the subject, she turns to her friends Paulina Malinowska (Maria Sobocińska), her roommate, and Monika Nowicka (Sandra Drzymalska), who have far more sexual experience and become essential to the app's design.[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470) • [1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/)\n\nThe three young women have entirely different mentalities and lifestyles, and the work on the app pushes each of them toward self-discovery; reviewers identified self-awareness, friendship, and female agency as the series' central themes rather than sex itself.[9](https://serialowy.pl/recenzje-seriali/sexify-recenzja-serialu-22689/) • [8](https://blog.polityka.pl/seryjni/2021/04/28/sexify-udany-polski-serial-netflixa-i-to-komedia/) • [10](https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflixs-sexify-is-a-wild-and-fun-exploration-of-the-female-orgasm) The action is set at the computer science faculty of a Warsaw university, where Natalia and Monika study, and in the dormitory where Natalia and Paulina share a room; Paulina studies chemistry.[8](https://blog.polityka.pl/seryjni/2021/04/28/sexify-udany-polski-serial-netflixa-i-to-komedia/)\n\nThe supporting cast includes Małgorzata Foremniak as Joanna Nowicka, Monika's mother; Cezary Pazura as Marek Nowicki, her father; Zbigniew Zamachowski as the dean Krzysztof Maślak; Piotr Pacek as Mariusz, Paulina's fiancé; Magdalena Grąziowska as Lilith, the owner of a sex shop; and Jan Wieteska as Adam, who works in her store.[1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/)\n\n## Production and release\n\nNetflix confirmed work on the series in March 2020, describing it as a comedy-drama from Piotr Domalewski and Kalina Alabrudzińska about three friends presenting a \"revolution in erotic life\" at a prestigious student start-up competition.[11](https://www.ppe.pl/news/143482/sexify-to-kolejna-polska-produkcja-platformy-netflix-premiera-odbedzie-sie-jeszcze-w-tym-roku.html) The series was one of three Polish original series Netflix commissioned from Akson Studio, Frame, and MediaBrigade, announced alongside Polish feature films premiering in 2021 and 2022.[2](https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/121544-netflix-announces-polish-commissions)\n\n**Producers' intent.** Producers Agata Gerc and Jan Kwieciński said they wanted to create a genuinely equal world in which it would not occur to women that they could not do something because of their sex, and to tell a story rooted in Poland. Kwieciński acknowledged the frequent comparison with the British series *Sex Education*, noting that both are comedies treating sexuality with a light touch, but said the similarities end there because the team wanted to tell a story about their own country.[12](https://moviesroom.pl/publicystyka/wywiady/wywiad-z-agata-gerc-i-janem-kwiecinskim-producentami-serialu-sexify/)\n\nSeason 1 consists of eight episodes. The [British Board of Film Classification](https://www.edgepedia.org/british-board-of-film-classification) classified the season 1 episodes at runtimes between 37 and 50 minutes, with content warnings for nudity, sex, sex references, and language; season 2 episodes ran between 32 and 43 minutes.[13](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/sexify-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc01mza0ota) Season 2 was released in full on January 11, 2023, and the series ended after two seasons.[4](https://usa.newonnetflix.info/info/81140470) • [14](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/sexify/seasons/official/2)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe first season was generally well received. Rotten Tomatoes recorded an 83% Tomatometer score for season 1 from six reviews, and the series drew frequent comparisons to *Sex Education*.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sexify) • [1](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/) Polish critic Aneta Kyzioł wrote that Alabrudzińska and Domalewski had made a comedy that does not embarrass itself, whose contemporary Polish setting does not frighten, and praised its depiction of women succeeding in technical fields as a matter treated as obvious rather than as a special topic.[8](https://blog.polityka.pl/seryjni/2021/04/28/sexify-udany-polski-serial-netflixa-i-to-komedia/) [The Daily Beast](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-daily-beast)'s review called it a lighthearted, sex-positive story of female agency, friendship, and self-discovery, while noting that the fourth and fifth episodes felt like padding.[10](https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflixs-sexify-is-a-wild-and-fun-exploration-of-the-female-orgasm) Polish reviews were more mixed; a PPE reviewer rated the first season 5/10, finding the treatment of sexuality shallow and the characters stereotyped despite good pacing and a well-known Polish cast.[15](https://www.ppe.pl/publicystyka/210726/sexify-2021-recenzja-i-opinia-o-serialu-netflix.html)\n\n**International reach.** According to producers Kwieciński and Gerc in July 2021, the series entered Netflix's top-10 lists in more than 80 countries and took first place in 20 of them, a result they described as an enormous surprise.[6](https://film.wp.pl/producenci-sexify-mowia-seks-jest-okej-widac-jak-bardzo-bylo-to-polakom-potrzebne-6661200959859424a)\n\n## Themes and critical discussion\n\nCommentary on the series has focused on its treatment of sexuality for a young audience. A 2024 academic study by Olena Rosinska of Kyiv National Economic University, published in *Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication*, included *Sexify* (2021, 2022) among youth-oriented series from different countries intended for viewers aged 16 and over, examining how such shows portray sex, drugs, and suicide and how platforms censor such content for sensitive audiences.[16](https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/45517) The same author's analysis notes that in the first season Paulina has concerns regarding her orientation, and that the second season shows the girls failing in ways that complicate its feminist framing.[17](https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/download/45517/37487/107478)\n\nWriting for the jfa Human Rights Journal, Anna Luo argued that the series models healthier conversations about sex, treating Natalia's virginity as a banal, normal storyline rather than a scandal, and depicting the characters' failures without offering a magic solution; she also identified a missed opportunity in the sidelining of its queer characters and noted that by the end of season two the show concentrates on heteronormative sex and a \"what men want\" versus \"what women want\" dichotomy.[18](https://thejfa.squarespace.com/read/netflix-sexify-healthier-conversations-about-sex) The series' app within the story gained a sibling, Sexiguy, aimed at men's sexual pleasure.[18](https://thejfa.squarespace.com/read/netflix-sexify-healthier-conversations-about-sex)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Sexify – Serie TV, FormulaTV](https://www.formulatv.com/series/sexify/)\n2. [Netflix Announces Polish Commissions, FilmNewEurope.com](https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/121544-netflix-announces-polish-commissions)\n3. [Sexify, Netflix title page](https://www.netflix.com/title/81140470)\n4. [Is 'Sexify' on Netflix? Where to Watch the Series, New On Netflix USA](https://usa.newonnetflix.info/info/81140470)\n5. [Sexify – watch tv show streaming online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/sexify)\n6. [Sukces polskiego hitu za granicą. Nie chodzi tylko o seks, WP Film (interview with Agata Gerc and Jan Kwieciński)](https://film.wp.pl/producenci-sexify-mowia-seks-jest-okej-widac-jak-bardzo-bylo-to-polakom-potrzebne-6661200959859424a)\n7. [Sexify, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/sexify)\n8. [„Sexify” – udany polski serial Netflixa. I to komedia, Seryjni (Polityka blog), Aneta Kyzioł](https://blog.polityka.pl/seryjni/2021/04/28/sexify-udany-polski-serial-netflixa-i-to-komedia/)\n9. [Sexify recenzja, czyli połączenie algorytmu i seksu, Serialowy](https://serialowy.pl/recenzje-seriali/sexify-recenzja-serialu-22689/)\n10. [Netflix's 'Sexify' Is a Wild and Fun Exploration of the Female Orgasm, The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/netflixs-sexify-is-a-wild-and-fun-exploration-of-the-female-orgasm)\n11. [Sexify to kolejna polska produkcja platformy Netflix, PPE](https://www.ppe.pl/news/143482/sexify-to-kolejna-polska-produkcja-platformy-netflix-premiera-odbedzie-sie-jeszcze-w-tym-roku.html)\n12. [Wywiad z Agatą Gerc i Janem Kwiecińskim – producentami serialu Sexify, Movies Room](https://moviesroom.pl/publicystyka/wywiady/wywiad-z-agata-gerc-i-janem-kwiecinskim-producentami-serialu-sexify/)\n13. [Sexify, British Board of Film Classification](https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/sexify-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc01mza0ota)\n14. [Sexify – Season 2, TheTVDB.com](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/sexify/seasons/official/2)\n15. [Sexify (2021) – recenzja serialu [Netflix], PPE](https://www.ppe.pl/publicystyka/210726/sexify-2021-recenzja-i-opinia-o-serialu-netflix.html)\n16. [Olena Rosinska (2024). Sex, Drugs, and Suicide in Youth-oriented TV Series of Different Countries, Images 37(46), 93–107](https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/45517)\n17. [Olena Rosinska (2024), full-text PDF](https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/download/45517/37487/107478)\n18. [Netflix's 'Sexify' is showing us how to embrace healthier conversations about sex, The jfa Human Rights Journal](https://thejfa.squarespace.com/read/netflix-sexify-healthier-conversations-about-sex)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Sitcom and comedy series › Comedy series outside the US and UK › Premiered 1964 to 2021*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/sexify", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/sexify.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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