Lots of Reason to Love "I Love Dick" Including a Sizzling Kevin Bacon Screening on Amazon

"I Love Dick" is a new episodic extraordinaire series on Amazon.  Creator, writer Jill Soloway (b Amer 1965) is also the creator for the Emmy winning show Transparent.   The "I Love Dick" series is based on the cult novel written by Chris Kraus.   Kevin Bacon is Dick, the smoldering, enigmatic  artist who runs a prestigious art institute in Marfa, TX.  The actual artist colony town of Marfa plays a major role.  Kathryn Hahn plays Chris, the female protagonist.  Chris drives with her husband, Sylvere (Griffin Dunne) to Marfa where he's been accepted into a writing seminar.  Sylvere is writing about the Holocaust & Chris get's referred to as the Holocaust's wife.  She was planning to leave for Venice for a film festival featuring her work.  She's eager to hightail out of this remote town & dilapidated house her husband was assigned.  Chris is a brassy, loud mouth New Yorker; a total fish out of water in this dried up, hick town.  But no one can put Chris in a corner.  She receives a text that her film has been pulled because she neglected to obtain music rights.  Nothing sits right in her world, including her floundering marriage to her pseudo intellectual windbag husband.  Stuck for the night, Chris reluctantly agrees to attend a cocktail reception with her husband.  It's there Chris first lays eyes on Dick.   There is instant attraction, fascination & obsession on Chris's end.   She decides to stay & informs both Sylvere & Dick she's sticking around & plans to take his seminar.  Dick hasn't the patience for Chris's bumptious flirtation which only flame the fires of her carnal desires.  The twisted love triangle is not the only angle that makes this cunning & erotic social parody, must see TV.  The 3 key characters are exacerbating, outlandish, brazen & endlessly fascinating.  The mix of local cowboys & blue collar workers with the bourgeois social milieu set provide an expansive canvas for provocative insights that extend the boundaries of art & behavioral acceptabilities.   The episodes are framed by affecting love letters written (& voiced over) by Chris addressed to Dear Dick which were irretrievably sent followed by regret.  Instead of hiding in humiliation she splays the letters everywhere for everyone to read which puts conflicts & artistic inspiration into a gallop.  The writing is exceptional, the storylines are fresh,  perceptive & often touching.  Furthermore, the art world is exposed under an open & arid light.  "I Love Dick" makes for lascivious viewing balanced by erudite insights into human nature.  I loved watching.