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Tellingly, the most pleasurable moments in Nia DaCosta’s “The Marvels” don’t hinge on the audience having an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Marvel.

Group conversations about what sexual autonomy looks like if what a woman finds most pleasurable is relinquishing her control; what control looks like; to what extent many young women and men define their relationship to sex by their relationship to shame.

Ironically, the most pleasurable moments of the night were the very ones the Emmy producers kept trying to cut short: the speeches.

“I merge the two most pleasurable experiences: sex and food,” she says.

“One of the most pleasurable things about writing are the moments when you don’t know what you’re doing,” he said.