By: Jack MacNamara, Staff Writer

HBO’s The Deuce (2017) Season 1 Episode 22, which stars James Franco, Chris Coy, Kevin Breznahan, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Margarita Levieva, has drawn out conservative news media site Newsbusters, who claim that the cable show is promoting gay sex and not in a romantic way!

According to Newsbusters, “Every episode lasts one hour too many,”. What has conservative media up in a snit was the October 22 episode “Au Reservoir” (2017) which of course has a story line of a relationship between gay man Paul Hendrickson (Chris Coy) and his boyfriend, an actor in adult films.

Why they would get upset over a threeway kissing between men as well as missionary position of gay sex is unknown but they are. They even used the narrative of the Hollywood scandal with Harvey Weinstein to call Hollywood hypocritical during this time where women are being exploited by power players who call the shots and when they don’t comply, they are blackballed.

I do find it interesting that Newsbusters would be upset over this considering 21st Century Fox has produced several hit shows and movies which also exploited nearly NC-17 rated content in their productions while also owning the conservative news channel FOX News. Not everyone in Hollywood are drones and there are hundreds of different production companies, distributors and networks producing content.

In this reporter’s opinion, this is nothing more than finding an excuse to complain about LGBT storylines embedded into mainstream shows. Hopefully they will get over it soon.

I’ve reached out to Blown Deadline Productions for comment on their show but as of this posting, have not yet received a response but should I do, I will update this article accordingly.

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