The following contains spoilers for Don't Worry Darling, now playing in theaters.

Don't Worry Darling's horror built on every wife's nightmare when the person they trusted the most became their abuser, trapping them in a simulated retro perfection where they had no identity other than being someone's wife. The eerie parallel of real-life events drew praise for the film and comparisons to several titles that explore the same theme. However, when it comes to discussing intimacy turned imprisonment, HBO Max's television series Made For Love dives deeper than Don't Worry Darling.

In Don't Worry Darling, multiple men took control over their wives' entire lives, plugging them into a virtual simulation where they shared a perfect, wealthy, traditional home life. The men provided and cared for the women's bodies in the real world, while the wives stayed at a fake home, going through days of repetition. Jack (Harry Styles) was a loser in real life, but his wife, Alice (Florence Pugh), was a successful medical professional. Alice worked long hours and was too tired for intimacy. Jack blamed himself for making both of them miserable.

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Don't Worry Darling had Bunny recreating her kids in the Matrix

That was when he stumbled upon Frank's Victory project and decided to make a change. Living in the surreal town in the desert, a group of men came together and settled in the virtual reality with their wives. The reason each man entered the Victory project was never clarified (though it seems safe to assume it was similar to Jack's). The women there had different agendas. One of them chose to be there, one failed to leave, and most had no idea what had happened. In the wake of Alice's consciousness, the women seemed to all go through an awakening, though it was again not clarified. The film ended with Alice finding her way back to reality but left the others' fates a mystery.

On the other hand, Made for Love started with a woman's pursuit of independence. In the show, Byron Gogol was a tech billionaire obsessed with zero secrecy and privacy between couples. He went as far as to plant a chip in his wife's brain to monitor her emotions and daily life. He loved his wife as much as he wanted to be in total control, while the factor of not losing her also played a part in making sure she was happy, but the only problem was that Hazel Green wasn't his personal puppet.

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Cristin Milioti looking disturbed in the Made for Love HBO poster

Green was a person trapped in a world created solely by her husband, with her emotions and actions monitored. The frustration and the desperation spoke to every woman who felt suffocated in their relationships. In Green's pursuit of independence, Made for Love tackled subjects such as privacy, respect, intimacy, and love while delivering a range of comically-charged characters that everyone could easily relate to, leaving no stone unturned.

Unlike Made for Love, Don't Worry Darling wasted too much time building up to a shocking twist, with the audience speculating most of the time what was happening. In turn, it leaves so little screen time to give each character the spotlight they deserved, as well as the wounded brotherhood, aka Victory project, a more relatable purpose and explanation. Except for Jack's wounded masculinity being a deadbeat in real life in contrast with his wife's successful career as a medical professional, the true agency of a group of men changing the world with the Victory project was only left to viewers' imagination. In fact, the film had plenty of intriguing leads that were never truly explored, while the show made room for in-depth exploration.

Made for Love is available to stream on HBO Max. Don't Worry Darling is currently in theaters.