The small screen phenomenon, and its publicized use of intimacy coordinators, has arrived as established Hollywood names have started to criticize the role

So much of the focus on intimacy coordinators boils the position down to an object – a bridge between cast and crew, a bulwark against exploitation, a stopgap for miscommunications. And that is, for sure, part of the job. But it misses the potential for artistry – the breaking down of a scene, line by line, for a simulation of sex with the exactitude and ambition of a physical stunt.