Posted on 06/14/2019 7:09:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
The programmers at HBO pride themselves in setting the tone for the rest of television, especially when it comes to the absence of taste, from Bill Maher's "Real Time" talk-show tantrums to Lena Dunham marching around undressed on "Girls."
Every time HBO hits the bottom of the gutter, it finds a way to go deeper still. It is really headed into the gutter, and it knows it. A new HBO series about teenagers and sex and drugs called "Euphoria" is starting June 16, starring 22-year-old Zendaya, another former Disney Channel star desperately seeking to keep her career alive in the eyes of Hollywood casting agents and limiting herself to one name in the pursuit of that.
The show's creator, Sam Levinson, gleefully predicted to The Hollywood Reporter, "There are going to be parents who are going to be totally f---ing freaked out."
This is how The Hollywood Reporter began its story: "Thirty penises in one episode? Zendaya's new series, filled with graphic nudity, violence and drug use among young people, is so extreme that one star quit mid-shoot, but the network hopes that authenticity will help the show break through."
Ah, "authenticity." That's the word HBO uses when it makes a wildly over-the-top series. Levinson claimed the point of the show is to "expose an adult audience to the challenges of growing up in 2019," and that many of the scenes come directly from Levinson's life. "It may seem boundary-pushing, and the idea of putting them on TV may be, but somebody lived them." Levinson, born in 1985, is the son of top Tinseltown filmmaker Barry Levinson.
Many "somebodies" have navigated through dramatically sinful lives, but that doesn't mean they're all going to be exploited by HBO. If the company just loves "authenticity" for its own sake, can we expect it to run "Gosnell" on its channels, or "Unplanned"? Or is the authentic ugliness of the abortion industry just too tawdry?
Casey Bloys, HBO programming president, claimed the show is "not sensational to be sensational." There is zero authenticity in that claim.
Levinson says HBO executives have been supportive, but they did push back on two scenes. He wanted to start the whole series with a camera shot focusing on the birth of Zendaya's character that came from "behind a doctor and went straight between her mother's legs and into her vagina," the Reporter says. In the actual version, her character narrates over a clip of herself in utero, saying, "I was repeatedly crushed over and over by the cruel cervix of my mother."
The network also protested a scene in the second episode featuring dozens of naked high school boys. How responsible. "What made it to air is a trimmed-down version of the original shot, which included 'like, 80 more' penises," the Reporter says. It never ceases to amaze that HBO is now the first destination for new "Sesame Street" programming. The executives cravenly cashed in.
Parents Television Council President Tim Winter made the most salient point to the Hollywood Reporter. This show "appears to be overtly, intentionally marketing extremely graphic adult content -- sex, violence, profanity and drug use -- to teens and preteens."
HBO makes its way into millions of American homes, and not just on the television anymore. Children can easily stream a perverted show like this on their laptops or iPads or even cellphones. Parents should be alerted that this smutty show will be bubbling up from the bottom of the sewer.
Until HBO goes deeper still.
There is definitely a market highlighting American decadence and hedonism. HBO, perhaps better than anyone, knows how to exploit it and make money doing it.
Another Disney train wreck.............
Uh, “...but the network hopes that authenticity will help the show break through.” ...” Gleefully stated by the assclown. Should read “...but the nutwork hopes the depravity and sheer pornographic nature will help the show break through...”.
So, now we know why they view abortion the way they do. Gestation is torture.............
Even with the display of sex, there can be such a thing as ‘Sensory Overload’. At some point, one becomes numb to it.
The quality of ‘titillation’ becomes diluted.
Same thing with violence, or any attention getting device.
A few years ago, I heard talk of another TV show like this one, starring teens, but delving into quite graphic behavior.
It lasted for a little over one season.
Somehow, I was able to hear some music by Zendaya, her singing the lead. Actually, I thought it was quite good. The girl does have some talent with the right producers.
I don’t recall the name. I had to ask a younger friend who it was doing the singing.
That was some four years ago. I guess she’s not famous enough from her singing, so, off go the garments.
“...so extreme that one star quit mid-shoot...”
Huh. Someone had a moment of clarity.
Disney exists for the sole purpose of providing Children to Hollywood Pedophiles.
Disney is the train wreck — a major contributor to the downfall of America.
“I guess she’s not famous enough from her singing, so, off go the garments.”
Well, I didn’t know who she was until she got cast in the “Spider-man” movie a couple years ago, and now I’ve heard she is cast as the main love interest in the upcoming “Dune” reboot coming out next year. So she was already getting pretty big parts without going “blue”.
Disgusting scumbag, time to boycott HBO.
We need some believing Christians in the top ranks of Hollywood. There’s too much sewage being pumped out, by people who lack conscience
How do people know about this show? It’s not even on till Sunday night. No I’m not watching. I don’t have hbo but even if I did this sounds like the movie Kids which was about a group of kids doing drugs and hating life. Boring!
Oy. Another show I won’t be watching.
“Authentic”, “realistic”, “gripping”.
All long code words for gratuitous sex, violence and hedonism in your face.
These people try to validate their lousy lives and lifestyles by filming it and calling it “real”.
Likewise every-day lousy people try to validate THEIR lives by watching it and defending it.
Hey if the identify it as porn and give it an NC-17 rating, then so be it.
But it if is identified as porn, then it will lose its cred and with it viewers. So they won’t call it porn.
So Hollywood is playing a game and playing their viewers.
>>>He wanted to start the whole series with a camera shot focusing on the birth of Zendaya’s character that came from “behind a doctor and went straight between her mother’s legs and into her vagina,” the Reporter says. In the actual version, her character narrates over a clip of herself in utero, saying, “I was repeatedly crushed over and over by the cruel cervix of my mother.”
How about a doctor’s scissors piercing the skull of the child and sucking the brains out? Get REAL libs
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