At a time when “polyamory” is a buzzword, spawning numerous features in prominent news outlets, it makes sense that onlookers would assume Challengers joins the discourse. One minute into the film’s trailer you see Gen Z’s favorite actress, Zendaya, sitting on a bed between two men as they kiss her. So it’s no surprise to see headlines such as this doozy from Vox last week: “Challengers is the best thing that could happen to polyamory.”

Yet author Alex Abad-Santos’s reading of the film is almost hilariously wrong. 

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