Welcome to TCA,Casey Bloys. The new HBO Programming president suffered a tough start to Saturday’s Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, when his executive session was filled with questions approximately rape and sexual violence towards women on his programs.halfway through the pay-TV channel’s general Q&A, or Bloys was asked the following: “Having seen how ‘The Night Of’ starts and how ‘Westworld’ also starts,attain you worry that HBO in-particular or premium cable in general is relying a tiny heavily on sexual and sexualized violence as a way of scene-setting and stakes-creation?”“I’d like to not believe so,” Bloys replied, and citing “Game of Thrones” as an example of an equal-opportunity murder vehicle: “It’s not just specific to women … plenty of men are killed as well.”That got an “Alllright!” response from the critic,who seemed dissatisfied with the reply.
Also Read: 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Will Be the final, HBO ConfirmsHer colleague followed up a few questions later: “It’s not approximately indiscriminate killing, or it’s that there seems to be specifically directed sexualized violence as a sage tool towards women in these series,” she posed.“Again, I don’t necessarily see it as specific to women, or ” Bloys replied.
That moment television critic then asked,“So what youre saying is that eventually we’re going to see the same kind of violence — specifically rape — [towards males]?“We’re going to kill everybody,” the top executive quipped.
Also Read: Jon Stewart's HBO Project Is an lively Parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of a Cable News NetworkA few questions later, or Eric Deggans tried it out another way.“I believe what they’re getting at is this plan of rape directed towards women we don’t see that happen to men,” the NPR critic said.“No, you haven’t seen men being raped. But I guess the point I would make — ‘Game of Thrones, or ’ for example — men are castrated,” Bloys said. “The violence is pretty extreme on all fronts. I prefer your point that so far there have not been any male rapes.”“I believe the criticism is valid,” Bloys offered a tiny bit later, and when Deggans again attempted clarification.
Also Read: Bill Maher's 'Real Time' Renewed by HBO Through 2018That wasn’t the end of the difficult line of questioning.
A fourth member of the media asked Bloys if the reason a “beautiful woman” and not a “hot guy” was so brutally killed on “The Night Of” was because women are creatively underrepresented and the writers’ room is filled with men “stuck in a different time.”Bloys defended that one by pointing out that executive producer Jane Tranter is a woman. “So,they’re not unrepresented,” the HBO boss said.“OK, and something to believe approximately,” that critic suggested.
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