Office Romance, the new Netflix movie starring Jennifer Lopez, is more or less what it sounds like: the main character, Jackie Cruz, is overly focused on her career and has a strict anti-fraternization policy at the company she runs. But then, an attractive attorney starts working for her, and all bets are off.
The film has gotten mixed reviews, and while its premise isn’t exactly shocking, there’s one scene in particular that people were not expecting at all.
And people are urging everyone to watch this one scene.
if you have netflix open the movie OFFICE ROMANCE and watch what happens at the 1 hour 20 minute mark
— jos (@josiahhughes) June 6, 2026
Or warning them not to. It depends on who you ask. One X user took to the platform to write, “if you have netflix open the movie OFFICE ROMANCE and watch what happens at the 1 hour 20 minute mark” without providing any additional context. The post has garnered over 15 million views as of June 10.
Some people clearly watched it and reported back. “well that was… unexpected,” one person wrote. Someone else said, “Even with the build up making it obvious what was going to happen I still did not expect them to actually show it.”
And in response to the original post that urged people to watch this specific scene, someone else warned, “Don’t do this.”
Spoiler: At that point in the movie, Betty Gilpin’s character, Sydney, gives birth. Based on the reactions online, people clearly did not expect such a graphic close-up.
“I’ve seen my wife give birth twice and I still was not prepared for what I just saw,” one commenter wrote after watching the controversial scene. A few people said they actually screamed, and several said they can’t unsee it. “That prosthetic head crowning out of nowhere mid-rom-com fight scene lives rent-free in my head now,” someone commented.
It was actually pretty divisive.
Don’t do this https://t.co/LjK8bqqQQ3
— Andrew Woods (@JimJarmuschHair) June 7, 2026
Some critics questioned what purpose the scene served, other than showing “vulnerable moments” for “shock value.” And some clearly just weren’t expecting to see such a graphic shot in a Netflix romcom.
“I don’t know what I was expecting, but I don’t think a full graphic uncensored birthing scene was one of them,” one person wrote on Reddit in response to the movie. A few people argued that including the scene felt completely unnecessary. “that scene lasted like five minutes too and had nothing to do with the actual plot, felt like the director’s personal project got spliced in by mistake,” someone else said.
At the same time, others seemed totally unfazed. “Maybe this is just me being an RN, but there is a gigantic portion of the world who have seen or personally experienced this before,” a commenter on X wrote.
And another person added, “It’s literally not a big deal..why is everyone overreacting?”
Besides, multiple viewers argued that they’ve seen far worse in films and on TV, so they didn’t really understand the outrage. As one person pointed out, “there’s graphic sexual abuse in movies and all sorts of stuff on television crime shows,” and yet, “graphic birth on Netflix” is where some people seem to draw the line. Interesting.
That said, people have different feelings about when and how to depict childbirth on screen. Some critics simply felt this film missed the mark.
The actress explained how the scene was filmed.
Speaking to Variety, Betty revealed that the unexpected scene was filmed using a prosthetic vagina. She was admittedly “freaked out” when she saw it.
She explained, “My real legs were below a table, [I had] fake prosthetic legs, and then a puppeteer was standing at my real legs pushing an animatronic baby out of my prosthetic vagina, and it made it sound like [Gilpin makes a popping sound]…It was insane.”
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