Love & Passion Quote by Lexa Doig

Lexa Doig’s line lands because it performs a neat double move: it complains about “the amount of sex” while immediately pitching a more interesting, more character-driven kind of intimacy. The joke isn’t prudishness; it’s frustration with lazy titillation. “Disappointed” is doing heavy lifting here, flipping the usual promotional brag (more sex!) into a critique of what sex scenes often stand in for when writers don’t know what else to do.

The specific target is “Backus” as a character function: the isolated, professional, possibly emotionally armored woman who gets written as competent but curiously unopened. Doig’s “get out a bit more” reads like an actor’s diagnosis from inside the machine: the show is spending sexual energy without giving the character a life. A “relationship” becomes shorthand for stakes, vulnerability, and continuity - not just bodies moving, but choices accumulating.

Then she sharpens it with “perhaps make her a lesbian,” which works less as provocation than as a practical reroute. It’s a pitch for narrative permission: take a character boxed into hetero defaults and expand her social world. In the late-90s/early-00s TV ecosystem where sexuality could be used as marketing bait, suggesting queerness also signals a desire to modernize the show’s imagination rather than just its skin.

The subtext: Doig isn’t asking for more explicitness. She’s asking for less porn logic and more human logic - a storyline where sex is the consequence of character, not the substitute for it.