When the psychosexual thriller Fatal Attraction hit theaters in 1987, The New York Times review said the film was “forceful enough to suspend disbelief as it hurtles along, and so well acted that it transcends its own potential limitations.” One of those limitations, no doubt, was the schlock-factor of the plot. Michael Douglas plays a successful Manhattan lawyer who cheats on his loving wife (Ann Archer) with a seductive book editor (Glenn Close). It turns out that the editor is also psychotic and will not walk away. The new Paramount+ TV adaptation of the film treads somewhat cautiously around the original’s brazen body heat. It’s now set in Los Angeles, and Joshua Jackson is the attorney who cheats on his wife, this time with an employee in the Victim Services Bureau (Lizzy Caplan). There are plenty of sex scenes, but they’re glossier and less feral than before. Perhaps that says something about the differences between the 1980s and today. —Jensen Davis