As the plot complicates, never does Mindy prioritize her sexual desires or her right to consent-an unfortunate and familiar narrative in women’s lives. Magazine's Brianna Kovan wasn't pleased, saying that it was "troubling" that "Mindy and Danny had lasted this long in a relationship without discussing consent." She also claims the episode normalizes the overstepping of boundaries and, even more problematic, "focuses on Danny’s pleasure over throughout the episode": Acquiring sedatives so she can please Danny without being fully conscious getting sex advice from Peter for the same purpose and discarding her grandma’s bathrobe purely for Danny’s enjoyment. Danny's blunder in the sack is used for comedic effect, although it could also be viewed as a form of sexual assault. Bryan Lowder lays out evidence of what he perceives to be Nowalk's prejudice against bottoms as "submissive" and "effeminate," as opposed to tops, who are portrayed as "powerful" and "masculine." Lowder then states: It’s a shame that Nowalk and his co-writers felt, for reasons that remain opaque to me, that gay sexuality had to be rendered as a kind of game in which one is always striving to win at the supposed expense of the bottom, always angling “to do” instead of being “done to.”Īs for Mindy, some viewers took issue with the show's dismissive attitude towards consent. although Shonda Rhimes shot that complaint down pretty quickly on Twitter.īut going deeper, others have been bothered by what they consider "bottom shaming" on the part of showrunner Pete Nowalk (who is also gay). Obviously, some were upset by HTGAWM 's inclusion of any gay sex scenes whatsoever, let alone such explicit ones. Of course, the couple patches things up by the end of the episode, with Mindy stating, "If you want to try something freaky, just run it by me first." Fair enough.īut while plenty of viewers commended both shows for their honest depictions, neither show's exploration of their characters' rear ends was wholly without controversy. Almost more scandalous than the sex scene itself was this follow-up line from Pax: "He did this thing to my a** that made my eyes water." Granted, this may not be exactly groundbreaking for anyone who has watched Queer As Folk or Spartacus, but the fact that it's airing at primetime on one of the Big Five networks is a pretty big deal (sadly). There was plenty of passionate kissing, flashing abs, and implied action happening south of the border. In HTGAWM, law student Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee) was seen engaged in a hot-and-heavy copy room hookup with a young office worker, Pax (guest star Niko Pepaj). They both certainly deserve praise for tackling such a taboo topic. So which show handled the sensitive subject of butts better? Just one week earlier, writer/star Mindy Kaling caused a ruckus with her Season 3 episode "I Slipped," the plot of which centered around anal sex (although those two words were never actually spoken out loud).
16, the newest drama from über-producer Shonda Rhimes raised eyebrows with How to Get Away With Murder's frank portrayal of sex between two men. In its fourth episode, "Let's Get To Scooping," which aired on Oct.
Between ABC's How To Get Away With Murder and FOX's The Mindy Project, TV these days is - like Meghan Trainor - all about that bass.