[Drew68]

He explained, “We got 15 minutes of two middle-aged gay dudes falling in love and there’s an extended kissing scene. And they even get married. It is just the weirdest, bizarre, out of left field s**t that is completely irrelevant to the overall plot.”

I almost gave up on Ozark after a gay male lover subplot was introduced. I grimaced and powered through it.

***SPOILER ALERT***

Much to my surprise, the two gay dude characters turned out to both be scumbags and got themselves killed early on in the series. Surprised the writers got away with that.

***/SPOILER***

Anyhow, I've only watched the first two episodes of Last of Us, which I really enjoyed. Guess I'll fast-forward through the dude kissing scene. I'm sure HBO has computerized bean counters that can log every scene skipped and at exactly what point viewers gave up on a show.

[srmanuel]

I don’t care for the gay/lesbian scenes but overall the show has been really good, I enjoy apocalyptic end of the world books, movies, and TV shows.

But are the gay/lesbian scenes any more or less shocking than scenes of being beheaded as in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon ??

In both Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon they had incest scenes between brother/sister and 1st cousins, etc.

The violence of the Sopranos wasn’t child’s play.

Even broadcast network shows have had gay/lesbian scenes, the show Nashville about country music had a number of gay scenes so did the show The Walking Dead.

The point is, The Last of Us isn’t breaking new ground, quite a few other really popular shows on HBO and other broadcast channels have had equal violence and depravity.

[Dr. Sivana]

I almost gave up on Ozark after a gay male lover subplot was introduced. I grimaced and powered through it.

I turned off "The Man in the High Castle" when they made a virtuous, well developed character, Ed, into a pervert. When he kissed some cowboy in Canon City, Colorado, I turned it off, and waited a year for Wikipedia to provide a summary so I know what happened.

[Gene Eric]

>> “We got 15 minutes of two middle-aged gay dudes

Takes far less than 15 seconds of that obscene crap to suspend watching the series. And it’s happened too often that I no longer have any interest in risking a Woke surprise/messaging.

[BillyBoy]

I'll wait until all of season 1 is done airing. If I can skip episode 3 and watch the REST of the season without missing a beat, I'll definitely check it out. If, as Bella Ramsey suggests, there's lots more gay crap every other episode, forget it. But she's wrong that I'd be "missing out". All I'd have to do is play the original game to get the exact same story and characters, minus the SJW pandering crap they forced in a decade later.

[psjones]

I didn’t get the appeal of Ozark, too dark,
about the only likeable character was the
guy with Down Syndrome.

This actress think we’re missing out if we don’t
watch her show. Nice thing about streaming, is that
there are many better shows out there that don’t have
unnecessary depravity that add nothing to the storyline.

[SamAdams76]

I'm sure HBO has computerized bean counters that can log every scene skipped and at exactly what point viewers gave up on a show.

That they do, as does all streaming services. They know exactly what scenes viewers are skipping through (and which scenes get re-watched).

But I'm thinking these gratitutious homosexual scenes are inserted into TV scripts as a sop to the LBGT crowd, that infests Hollywood.