Oh, Hi! (Stream It or Skip It) – carnal fun and some energetic experimentation suddenly become a hostage situation

The first few months of any new relationship are fun, but also uncertain. The fun often comes from the sex, but the uncertainty that sits behind that sex niggles at you as you wonder whether this is going anywhere once the carnal fun stops.

In director Sophie Brooks’ Oh, Hi!, two young lovers, Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman), quickly realise they aren’t on the same page when it comes to their relationship goals after a night trying out some light bondage in a summer rental home. This is their first weekend trip together, and it quickly becomes clear it may be their last as communication falters and Isaac finds himself handcuffed to a bed in perpetuity by his scorned girlfriend.

But how did carnal fun and some energetic experimentation suddenly become a hostage situation? Well, it’s a tale as old as time, as Isaac states, just after sex, that he believes their relationship is casual, fun and open. That’s not what Iris thought! So she intends to keep him handcuffed to the bed until he falls in love with her! Of course, this decision is neither healthy nor appropriate, and as day turns to night and back to day, it’s clear Iris’s kinky method of couples therapy borders on the psychotic. And as for Isaac, it quickly becomes clear that the word “commitment” has long been an alarm bell inside his head. If only they had communicated their feelings before the handcuffs and chains, things could have been so different!