The #MeToo movement and the release of the documentary series "Playboy Secrets" have quite killed the Playboy brand (and rightly so). For decades, Hugh Hefner has worn sexual freedom as a female strengthening. He supported the progressive ideals of racial equality, the identity of Peder and the right to choose a woman. But his image as a cultural liberator and Suave Womanizer Every man should envy were just veneer. Hugh Hefner was a control guard, and inside his so -called glorious luxury castle, which was dull and strong inside, he allegedly drugged and manipulated women in the exercise of degrading sexual acts. He would secretly shoot some women and use footage as blackmail (through Diversity).

From 2005 to 2010, reality series "Girls Next Door" E! He made the Playboy brand more popular than it was before. He painted the three live girls on Jeff, Holly, Bridget and Kendra like cardboard, false players and Heff himself as a harmless, cunning old man. The following year, in 2011, the show -show Chad Hodge wanted to use the renewed interest in swinging in the 1960s of AMC's "crazy men".

"Crazy Men" peers under the glamorous surface of this transformative decadeDiscovering the emptiness of consumer culture and the longing for authenticity, within a great American novel as "Great Gatsby". The Playboy Club, and a similar series of ABC Pan Am, are far gilded and mainly enjoy the aesthetics of bombs in the era. While the Playboy club managed to attract 5 million viewers for its premiere episode, its audience quickly descended to 3.2 million (through TV after numbers). This origin was just one of the reasons the "Playboy Club" was canceled so early after only three episodes.

It would always be difficult for the Playboy Club to succeed because the series was busy in controversy before airing. Anti-pornography The Moral Organization in the media has launched an online petition calling for NBC to cancel the play, as well as the Pink Cross Foundation and the Women's Status Commission. Gloria Steinem, who has been celebrated in covert as a Playboy bunny for an exhibition at Show Magazine, has also encouraged a boycott of the series.

The Parent Television Council led this moral panic by sending letters to NBC affiliates, threatening to complain to the Federal Communications Commission and calling for a return to the 2005 -year -old issue to increase penalties and penalties for broadcasting materials Parent Television Council). PTC claimed in Hollywood reporter That with the Playboy Club, "Ann -BI -broke public confidence by broadcasting what it means weekly advertising for a porn brand."

The funny on all home television advice is funny because, as a major network, there would never have been nudity. Any sex scene or allusions of Playboy magazine should be quite tame. This whole Hubbub was successful because seven advertisers - Kraft, Sprint, Lenovo, Oops shop, subway, Bistro of China at PC Yang and Campbell soup - ended with the second episode (through Hollywood reporter), and after the broadcast of the third episode, the show was ax. While several more episodes were recorded in the hope of finding a new network, they remain unopened and lost by time.

Another big question that the series had was that she tried to shape itself as a story about feminist progress - but does it wear a package and serve the horns of people really? Actors Amber Herd and Leah Rene defended the series of the 2011 Television Critics Association, claiming: "It is a time. It comes down to elections. If they make the choice, they are not exploited," which is a very simplistic way to see these patriarchal systems, After Elton).

Creator Chad Hodge has rejected the idea that he is trying to do something "political ambitious or make a statement or to do this show to strengthen women, which sounds super bored. It sounds like a documentary, which this is certainly not. This is fun, sexy soap ”(through Hollywood reporter). As far as the Playboy Club wants to be a glossy pastic Best movies musicalsIt's not much fun to find. He focuses too much on the boring and gentle mafia, as if trying to attract a male -missing audience. This deterrence takes away from what would attract narratives on its own, such as the competitive dynamics of work like a bunny or balancing this unique profession with cultural transformations and long -standing expectations to be a housewife at the time.

The show as "crazy men" examines sexuality in the 1960s and female sexuality with skill, while the Playboy Club is a tone. But if you still want to give him a recording, it is available to Roko.