The Parents Television Council is none too happy with the content Ryan Murphy is putting on television between his FX series "American Horror Story: Hotel" and Fox's "Scream Queens." The PTC blasted the shows as the "Worst of the Week" for cable and broadcast, respectively.
The PTC took particular issue with the "nearly unbelievable levels of ultra-graphic sex and gore" in the Oct. 7 season premiere of "AHS: Hotel" and with the necrophilia storyline on "Scream Queens," which aired at 7 p.m. in the Central/Mountain time zone.
The first episode of "Hotel" featured a bloody foursome involving Lady Gaga's The Countess and Donovan (Matt Bomer) slitting the throats of their sexual partners. A faceless man, known as the Addiction Demon, also wears a strap-on sex toy and anally rapes Max Greenfield's character Gabriel.
"While Ryan Murphy may defend his show's content by claiming that a man being anally raped with a drill bit is a 'metaphor' for drug addiction, in fact it appears that the program indulges in sexualized violence simply for the perverse thrills of doing so," the PTC wrote in its blog.
The PTC spotlighted Glen Powell's character in "Scream Queens" and his fantasies of having sex with a "lifeless corpse" as well as the other mutilation deaths that occurred in the pilot episode. They also urged McDonald's to pull its ads during broadcasts of "Scream Queens."
Murphy has long been a favorite target of the council, starting with his FX series "Nip/Tuck" in the early 2000s and continuing with his previous installments of "American Horror Story."
"American Horror Story: Hotel" airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EDT on FX and "Scream Queens" runs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EDT on Fox.
