It’s surprising to find it outside of more niche queer content, but especially so in a show that is otherwise rather too polite in its posture and politics – a Sunday night romance designed to appeal to a straight mom-and-pop audience. The sex scenes are both jaw-droppingly graphic and crucial to the plot, a convincing riposte to the recent argument posed by puritans that watching actors simulate sex is not just morally dubious but unnecessary.
It is entirely unnecessary. This is deliberately rubbing our noses in it. There is no artistic merit whatsoever and you can have a plot without needing graphic sex scenes. For generations we have been telling stories that leaves the sex to the imagination. You can tell the story without it. So, no, I will not be watching this under any circumstances. I’m fine with people being homosexual. I’m fine with leading characters being homosexual and having stories woven around this. I am not fine having gay sex shoved in my face. No, that does not make me a puritan.
A philosopher once argued that things change into their inverse over time. So barter (existing things) becomes money becomes credit cards (not yet existing things).
So after years of Mrs Whitehouse prudery the swing to sex in the media built up to a climax (sorry) and is now deflating (sorry again) – at least in the media blessed by the Establishment. People having pleasurable experiences don’t fit within the po-faced Neo-Puritans.
I guess short intercuts of trains entering tunnels and breaking waves will be more common again.
Essential to the plot. How? That makes no sense.
Of course it isn’t. This is nothing more than gay propagandising. The story would work perfectly well without having to see two men shagging each other. And, frankly, I refuse to watch. Even the sight of two men kissing makes my gorge rise.
My missus keeps trying to get me to watch Brokeback Mountain. Feck that. Nauseating.
Frankly, I find all sex scenes, of whatever type, unnecessary. Most US serials nowadays appear nothing more than a vehicle for soft porn, utter shite.
I, like our host, don’t give a fig who you play hide the sausage with, just don’t tell me about it.
I did watch a movie about a straight guy who got aids because of his promiscuity, who subsequently became friend 2i5hva load of gays and trannies who were in the same boat, and it was very good, so no, I’m not homophobic. They don’t scare me at all ?
With all the remakes and recasting of men’s roles to women, I’m just waiting for the remake of Brokeback Mountain starting Emma Stone and Margot Robbie
That would break box office records and prove how tolerant we actually are of the LGB stuff, under the right circumstances of course
Long time since I saw Brokeback Mountain but so far as I can remember it’s reasonably discreet. It’s main problem is that it takes far too long to tell a short story and is rather boring.