Laura Eason’s sexy and complicated two-hander stars Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad and Billy Magnussen of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

First impressions are everything — but should they be? My first impression of Laura Eason’s Sex With Strangers, now making its New York premiere at Second Stage Theatre, was that it is a predictable and self-indulgent excuse to sound off about the digital revolution and its negative human implications. I was dead wrong. Under the deft direction of David Schwimmer, Sex With Strangers is a probing and painfully realistic look at first impressions, modern relationships, and the trust needed to bridge the gap between point A and point B. Olivia (Anna Gunn) is a novelist turned college professor, watching over a friend’s bed-and-breakfast in deepest, darkest Michigan. Her first book failed to find an audience when the cover art suggested Candace Bushnell and the pages delivered something much darker. Since then, she’s been very protective of her work. When Ethan (Billy Magnussen) shows up on a snowy winter’s night, her initial reaction is disgust. Ethan is a Tucker Max-style literary success story: That is to say, a jackass with a talent for prose. He gained a huge following by chronicling his sexploits on a blog. He then leveraged that into multiple book deals and a five-year stint on the New York Times bestseller list, all by the tender age of 28. He’s staying at the B&B to finish up the screenplay for the film adaptation of his first book, Sex With Strangers.