Westworld (Photo : HBO/YouTube)
Lewd content which outrages netizens and TV viewers had become more prevalent on video-sharing sites and American TV. After a video of a Chinese man playing with a sex doll became viral in social media sites in China, a four-minute orgy scene on HBO’s “Westworld” outraged TV viewers on Sunday.
The HBO series, described as wilder than “Game of Thrones,” had an orgy scene with 40 actors engaged in various sex acts. The scene lasted for four minutes, Fox News reported.
Subscribers of HBO – known for programming that features incest, rape and very gory scenes – tweeted their thoughts on Sunday’s episode.
Ahmad merhebi found the orgy scene awkward and wrong. Joe Marshall described the futuristic cable TV series as filth, and RomeyKimball wrote: “This episode made me question my own taste. The gold painted ladies seemed gratuitous, yet, the orgy made total sense.”
Episode 5 of the series, titled “Contrapasso” had guests William (Jimmi Simpson) and Logan (Ben Barnes), plus robot host Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) find a new area of the park in Pariah, a city, full of outcasts, delinquents, thieves, murderers and other horny hosts. They also found explosives for local mercenaries.
For their work, William and Logan are invited to a sex party thrown by people of Pariah. Men and women coated in gold and crimson paint were “pleasuring each other and themselves in varying amounts of partners, positions, and other P-words that are not quite fit to print,” according to Hollywood Reporter.
Because of that episode, Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, said “Westworld” is a disturbing reminder of the sick and demented ways how Hollywood views the world. He urged parents to turn off the cable channel, stop paying for it and block HBO.
However, Richard Lewis, co-executive producer and supervising director of “Westworld” said, “I think all of us have a modicum of taste that keeps us from taking it too far into the pornographic world.”
Geoff Skinner, a TV producer, said since the series is on cable TV, viewers can tune it out. However, he defended the orgy scene as appropriate for the story the series was telling. But Skinner conceded that “Parents like myself should never allow a child to watch this until they are old enough to understand all of the thematic and semiotics that this show is trying to achieve.”
Lewis said their intention for the orgy scene was to “create a palette that was very sensual and very dark and not particularly rote or done.” He disclosed it was shot in a Compton mausoleum, a very narrow building where 40,000 bodies are buried aboveground. A sex stylist ensured the very surreal scene was properly choreographed.
