Brand New Cherry FlavorFamily Viewing Has Reached a New Low

Family viewing used to be comical sitcoms, meaningful films or educational documentaries. I remember as a child in the 70s and 80s only very occassionally wanting to curl up and die during kissing moments in films. In the last few years, I've been saying families are settling down to watch such sexually explicit content it should be described as porn: mum, dad, kids and granny and grandpa all cuddled up on the sofa to watch people have sex, sometimes even gay sex and underage sex (Netflix's 'Sex Educaton'). Now, according to the review below of 'Brand New Cherry Flavor', also on Netflix, things have fallen to a new low. Given the speed of change over the last year, I wonder what family viewing will be like in ten years' time. 

Actually, I'd better not.

Review: Brand New Cherry Flavor debuted on Netflix in August 2021, however a particularly graphic scene from episode four of the series has recently gone viral. TikTok users drew attention to the sex scene and sparked a trend in which people filmed their horrified blind reactions to the footage. The horror drama series details the story of Brazilian director Lisa N. Nova who moves to LA and is betrayed by a movie producer whose advances she rejected. Keen to seek revenge, she asks a witch to curse him, however Lisa has to pay a price for the curse, which sees her begin to vomit up newborn kittens. In the fourth episode of the series, Lisa finds a wound on her stomach from which a newborn kitten is born, much to the shock of her new boyfriend, Roy. However he quickly overcomes his horror and the pair begin to kiss, with Roy at one point putting his entire hand inside of Lisa's stomach wound. The clip has left viewers horrified, with many taking to TikTok and Twitter to voice their upset and outrage over the incredibly gory sex scene.