


They know that even though Lenny is scum, nothing about what happened to him is funny - and he certainly didn't deserve it. Petrified with fear, Franklin and Leon are unable to speak or move at the sight of him. "He's like a master director.") Lenny meanwhile, makes eye contact with Franklin still handcuffed, bent over the bed, naked from the waist down and bleeding, he then stares into space in a way that makes his heartbreak visceral. (Singleton said director Daniel Attias deserved kudos for his treatment of the scene. is trying to get the money out of this guy and that's what he does."ĭespite the big grin on his face after he finishes his attack, Karvel is shot in a way that makes him look like a monster. What would he do totally humiliate him? I came up with that. We talked about what would be the most shocking thing to see. "In the writer's room," he said, "we were talking about interrogation procedures.
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John Singleton, who co-created the series, told TV Guide in an interview that the scene was his idea. For a while, Franklin and his buddy Leon (Isiah John) are unaware what's happening outside the room, until Leon pieces it together and tells Franklin, "He ain't killing him, he giving it to him." Both boys are terrified, and in that moment join a small minority of characters who've endured or witnessed a man be sexually assaulted. Lenny still won't say where the money is, so Karvel drags him into a bedroom and rapes him. It happens when Karvel (Sheaun McKinney), a goon hired by the series' hero Franklin Saint ( Damson Idris) to steal back his money from Lenny (Craig Tate), elevates his violent interrogation to a horrific level. Two years later, A merican Horror Story: Hotel showed a man being raped by a monster with a pointed drill for a phallus - a scene placed in the story merely for shock value, never to be addressed again.Ī recent episode of Snowfall, though, mostly gives the crime the gravitas it deserves. Sex with someone while they're blackout drunk is the very definition of non-consensual sex and while The Mindy Project was rightfully dragged for the story, blowback from that 2013 episode didn't portend great change. Leotard is so blackout drunk that he's passed out in his hallway but nonetheless taken inside his apartment by Christina ( Chloe Sevigny) for a casual romp. The rape of a man was also a joke in a now-infamous episode of The Mindy Project.
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Snowfall proves that when it comes to drugs, you don't know crack T he Boondocks' lampooning of a real-life prison rapist featured on Lockup is a prime example. Whatever the reason, TV shows have, up until very recently, treated male rape with a tinge of adolescent humor, reducing it to the province of the mythological "Booty Bandit" boogeyman who sounds more cartoonish than the violent predator he is.
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That could be because our culture still hasn't figured out how to talk about male rape the FBI just expanded its definition of rape to include men in 2013. When TV shows do take on sexual assault of men, the portrayal is frequently awkward or problematic. When it comes to the sexual assault of men? Depictions are, to put it mildly, rare. It's been treated in ways that are respectful or powerful and often one-sided, or gratuitous. Sexual assault has always had a complicated history on television.
