Get ready to relive Fifty Shades all over again. As of today, the trilogy has found a new streaming home in the UK and Ireland.
The three E L James adaptations – Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed – are now available to watch on Netflix UK and Ireland.
Starring The Tourist's Jamie Dornan and Madame Web's Dakota Johnson, the films charted the relationship between the titular wealthy Christian Grey and young shy Anastasia Steele, amid a backdrop of dark secrets and a lot of BDSM.
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Like the books they are based on, the films were notorious – not only for the subject matter, but the quality (or lack of). Reviews not only panned the storyline, but increasingly criticised the films for watering down the sex scenes – the biggest cultural impact from the books – more and more with each instalment.
"Freed is a stupid movie, horribly written and full of incoherent narrative developments," reads Digital Spy's review of the third movie. "It's not even so bad it's funny and its retrogressive politics are the cherry on top of a franchise that we, and no doubt the actors, are glad to finally have escaped."
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Dornan spoke about the trilogy's reception back in 2023, stating: "I got cast five weeks before we started filming. I knew that it came with all that baggage… that the reality was it would make a ton of money, and the fans would love and the critics would despise it.
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"That's what happened with the books, and that's what we were making. We were staying truthful to the books, and we knew what that would be."
Despite all the critical drubbing, the three films made combined $1.3 billion at the box office.
The Fifty Shades trilogy is now available to stream for Netflix UK and Ireland subscribers.
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