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HBO certainly traded on some raunchy TV: Californication, Sopranos etc. GoT had raunch and nudity, but overall that trend feels like it peaked and is trailing off too.


It occurs to me that those shows are pre-Netflix. Netflix and the other video streaming platforms could be pushing for more family friendly content in general, and discouraging anything remotely like "porn" on their platform..


GoT is a great example of the evolution of raunch; explicit nudity and sex scenes were HBO's bread and butter for a while, especially obvious in S1 (even episode 1) of GoT.

But as it got successful - and the actors set boundaries - they realized the show didn't actually need it.

If sex scenes and nudity were a crutch to hide bad writing, I'm all for getting rid of it. Of course, you can have both.


The first few seasons also were more closely following the books which are very sexually graphic.




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