The Baywatch movie isn't sexy

These bodies are almost too perfect to be real

The Baywatch crew.
(Image credit: Paramount Pictures/Entertainment Pictures)

I don't know about you, but what I miss most about the Baywatch years is the inspiring spectacle of pecs bouncing mightily down the beach at dusk. I miss the muscles and the tone, the iron discipline that made this crack team of life-savers the formidable athletes they undoubtedly were.

Kidding. The show was cheesecake through and through, and the bits people watched for … well, they wobbled.

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.