Wish they would leave their own employees alone that know what they are doing.
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Apple Nixes 'Bastards' TV Show Starring Richard Gere
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In the US, in the rest of the world shootings are not every day occurrences. (Apple is a global company)
And as customers of such business, we can comment that it's a bad decision. Right?
It also doesn't make much sense when I can buy all sort of violent stuff on iTunes.
We can expect this to become the norm when the production costs are a drop in the ocean
I wasn’t aware that TV for adults had to include gratuitous violence. I’m curious why Apple bid on this show in the first place.
Sounds like a smart move. I don't have an issue with Apple not producing overly-violent shows.
I don't want to be an Apple apologist or a "prude", but I don't believe explicit sex and violence are essential for good story telling. Sometimes letting the most terrible things in the story happen off-screen lets the viewer use their imagination, making it more terrible (and more real) than the director could have ever imagined or delivered.
Expect more of this considering Apple propensity to nanny its users.
So we'll be getting a handful of PG friendly shows from Apple and they expect us to pay $9.99? PASS.
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Get a grip Apple.... let the user decide if they want to watch the violence or not. Looks like this new TV service is going to boring...
Ahhh, no.
Staying on topic (as your comment is quite the open book), the main characters kill Israeli youth.
Of course they did. Apple TV+ is going to be mostly family-oriented, PG, with shows about female empowerment, anti male patriarchy agenda, LGBTQI-whatever and SJW dramas. Amazon or Start should pick this up and create a proper show.
It will fail just like Apple news+
Get woke, go broke
I’m surprised they even bothered to buy the rights to begin with based on the description. Definitely not in line with the “safe” content they want to push.
Maybe this show will get a chance with someone else.
Maybe this show will get a chance with someone else.
This was my first thought, too. They seem like a younger version of me, buying things because other people were wanting them and then having buyer's remorse soon after.
They must have thought that the Dr. Dre show was going to be about an actual doctor.
This is probably the problem. Violence on the screen is now mostly used on shows that make it "fun" or at least entertaining to watch somehow. However, movies that can show the brutality and the consequences of disgusting actions shield away from using it as a visual tool to carry deeper meanings.
revenge killing is a staple of the movie business, along with guns, violence and horror. Welcome to the human race.
I loved the first 2 episodes of The Boys, but man 3-6 felt like the same episode over and over and over.
I believe Apple's official statement is that they would not interfere with the directors. Essentially they wouldn't push them to do anything to keep a show PG. While I don't think they will have and hard core "R" rated series, I do think they will have mature content.