HBO Max's polyamory-exploring documentary There Is No "I" in Threesome is surprising despite its gimmicky premise

The Hollywood Reporter

New Zealand filmmaker Jan Oliver "Ollie" Lucks' first-person HBO Max meta-documentary centers on him and his actress-fiancée Zoe opening up their relationship months before their wedding. "For a doc with such a gimmicky premise, Threesome is refreshingly free of heteronormative hangups," says Inkoo Kang. "Ollie and Zoe feel pangs of jealousy, but they’re more likely to have sex with the object of their envy than stew in repressed resentment. And it turns out that the third entity in the central couple’s relationship isn’t really Tom, but Ollie’s camera, a shield he hides behind to avoid vulnerability and being in the moment, as well as an (imagined) audience that he and Zoe are performing their relationship for — and by which they feel increasingly trapped."