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Godless: Sex & Nudity from IMDB

"Beginning credits Poster/drawing of nude woman buttocks is shown with side boob

"A rape of a young woman involving two men, you see her facial reactions, various shots at different angles. There is brief upper female nudity. This scene is around 10 seconds

"A fully nude woman is shown, her bare buttocks also shown and some of her hair covers her breasts but not all.

"Fully nude woman shown in several episodes. One is a woman painting portraits, another is a woman who runs out of the woods nude.

“Male and female nudity is shown which includes topless women, bare breasts shown, female bare buttocks, and female genitalia visable as very thick pubis. Graphic nudity is spread throughout the season and sexually or violently portrayed.”
 
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Irishmom2 said:
I enjoyed the NBC show Parenthood, even when the characters annoyed me. I believe it is on Netflix, or it was. It followed a family in California and the intertwining of their adult children and their lives. The series finale was one of the best I have ever seen.

I also am enjoying This is Us, also on NBC, but they are only into season 2. Still, worth watching all the episodes on demand, there are many if you feel like binge watching one weekend. 😊 This show is also about a family and flashes back between the present and the past. Very interesting characters.
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Yes to both of these. Warning: I cry watching almost every episode of This is Us. The actors even made a video “apologizing” for making everyone cry all the time.

Also, Call the Midwife is very good.
 
LisaB said:
Lately I’ve been looking for CLEAN shows to watch. It’s so hard to find, even seemingly benign ones (some are geared for teenagers!) treat evil as good: contraception, premarital sex, homosexuality all portrayed as good or normal. Parenthood and This is Us are examples. The storyline is so so good, why do they have to ruin an awesome show?
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While it does feel like there is an agenda at times (more so with Parenthood, not as much with This is Us it seems), I’m quite able to look past it and enjoy the show. I think adults who are already secure in their convictions can watch shows like that and ignore things that are not agreeable.
 
Sounds different from what I’ve seen.

The rape of the woman by two men, isn’t shown. It’s implied in the script.

The brief nude is a crazy woman riding a horse through the town center.

If nudity is going to be the litmus test for what what is not appropriate for Catholics, we’re going to have to scrape the paintings of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

Funny how some Catholics will be upset over the few nude scenes, but say nothing about the violence and gory scenes of dead bodies. 😃

Jim
 
I’ll gladly provides the blood and gore from IMDB:

"From the get go, Godless is full of disturbing imagery, realistic and bloody wounds, and other violent content inherent to a show set in the West.

"Throughout the show, many men and women are shot, stabbed, and beaten with realistic blood letting.

"Multiple corpses with old bullet wounds can also be seen in various states of decomposition.

“In the very first episode, a man’s arm is seen hanging off by a thread. He eventually loses it off screen, but it can later be seen rotting and covered with bees.”
 
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Yeah, violence like Saving Pvt Ryan and other shows, which are tolerated.

Jim
 
TV shows - not movies. Saving Private Ryan had unnecessary graphic scenes, and I’ve studied World War II history for a long time. Not a movie to buy after seeing it once.
 
Well that’s your opinion

I think Saving PVT Ryan gave a realistic view of combat, where former movies glorified war.

I also liked Band of Brothers and the Pacific, both of which I have the full DVD set.

Jim
 
Former movies glorified what? I’ve watched those movies. My dad was a World War II vet and had veteran friends in the neighborhood. They rarely talked about anything graphic, very rarely.
 
Well, most of John Wayne movies.

Also, The Longest Day, The Devil’s Brigade, and the list could go on.

Watching it, made the viewer, especially young males, wish they could be there.

Heck, I was a fan of the tv show Combat, when I was a kid. I remembering telling my father, “I hope there’s a war when I’m old enough to go and fight.”

Of course I joined the Marines in 1970.

Saving Pvt Ryan, made the view thankful he wasn’t there and would never want anyone to have to go through that again.

There was a difference and I’ve heard the same from many of my friends who are vets.

Jim
 
I’ve watched those movies. People died but without all the graphic gore and violence that was gradually added as years passed. And then TV began showing programs where psychotic killers just killed a lot of people like it was nothing, plus it was graphic. I watched Combat on TV growing up. It did not make me feel like joining the military. My parents were not from the US and were just happy to be in a country without bombs falling on their heads or people shooting each other during combat.
 
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Only shows I’ve watched from beginning to end that I’d recommend in approximate order of enjoyment:

Chuck - Nerdy spy comedy/drama where a civilian unvoluntarily receives a super computer in his head after opening a package from an old roomate

Lost - Plane crash stranded on a sci-fi island with intriguing character development.

Psych - Class clown pretending to be psychic works for the police with his childhood best friend

Merlin - young wizard watching over tough loving prince Arthur in a kingdom that has outlawed magic.

Friends - sitcom, can be crude

Royal Pains - Super doctor treating complicated patients, with his goofy brother handling money, and a mysterious side drama.

Burn Notice - ex spy helps average victims of crime with his friend and ex fiance while trying to find out why he the CIA ditched him.

Also, Once Upon a Time had a great first few seasons, but went downhill and I’ve kinda stopped watching - fantasy characters are brought in to a world without magic and forget who they are.
 
It shouldn’t be all nudity, but certain situational nudity tempts lustful sins. Gore doesn’t tempt any sins, though I still avoid it personally. Anyway, that’s why sex scenes are despised more than gore and violence by Catholics.
 
Burn Notice ended badly. Disappointing. Friends turned into a sex romp. Chuck had its moments but the ‘good guy’ female character was exploited for her looks. Too bad.
 
Nudity in the context of the film doesn’t provoke lust unless you have a dirty mind to begin with, 😁

Jim
 
Gratuitous nudity is unnecessary and demeaning. There’s no reason for it, except for arousal.
 
Arousal isn’t the reason for it in the context of the series Godless.

At least not the episodes I’ve seen so far.

Jim
 
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