I never thought I'd say this, but I'm sick and tired of seeing naked women on TV.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lovely female form as much as the next person who enjoys naked women.
I also can't stand the US Network approach, according to which, women always keep their bras on while having sex (and sometimes also their panties and other bits of lingerie, and not in a wild monkey sex way, but in a This-Sex-Is-Improbable way), as if there's nothing between pr0n (or Spartacus) and unrealistic "modesty." But then again, these are the same networks that refuse to acknowledge that people might need to do radical things like, for instance, pee, before fucking in the morning (or brush their teeth - never with any paste, though, because it doesn't look good on camera or something).
I've always been a fan of the UK's after-the-watershed approach to programming, where people who have sex tend to do it naked, or at least remove enough clothing between them to actually reach the genitalia, and they also do outrageous things like sweating, and the actors, while easy on the eyes, still look like people you might see walking down a normal street.
So, yeah, I'm all for cable doing sex right, or more realistically, or at the very least, more fun to watch. The Sopranos had its fair share of both sex and nudity, and the characters weren't exactly paragons of sexual equality, and there were hookers and strippers and the like, but we also saw quite a bit of partially clothed men, and the sex was mostly sex, as opposed to porn.
Now I watch things like Game of Thrones or Magic City and I just wish they'd let the women put some fucking clothes on, or else get the men to at least drop their pants to ass-level WHILE THEY'RE FUCKING. I mean, seriously, WTF, Cable TV?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lovely female form as much as the next person who enjoys naked women.
I also can't stand the US Network approach, according to which, women always keep their bras on while having sex (and sometimes also their panties and other bits of lingerie, and not in a wild monkey sex way, but in a This-Sex-Is-Improbable way), as if there's nothing between pr0n (or Spartacus) and unrealistic "modesty." But then again, these are the same networks that refuse to acknowledge that people might need to do radical things like, for instance, pee, before fucking in the morning (or brush their teeth - never with any paste, though, because it doesn't look good on camera or something).
I've always been a fan of the UK's after-the-watershed approach to programming, where people who have sex tend to do it naked, or at least remove enough clothing between them to actually reach the genitalia, and they also do outrageous things like sweating, and the actors, while easy on the eyes, still look like people you might see walking down a normal street.
So, yeah, I'm all for cable doing sex right, or more realistically, or at the very least, more fun to watch. The Sopranos had its fair share of both sex and nudity, and the characters weren't exactly paragons of sexual equality, and there were hookers and strippers and the like, but we also saw quite a bit of partially clothed men, and the sex was mostly sex, as opposed to porn.
Now I watch things like Game of Thrones or Magic City and I just wish they'd let the women put some fucking clothes on, or else get the men to at least drop their pants to ass-level WHILE THEY'RE FUCKING. I mean, seriously, WTF, Cable TV?