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Parents Television Council Calls on HBO to Cancel ‘The Idol,’ Citing ‘Torture Porn’ and ‘Sexual Abuse’

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depict male rape fantasies. Additionally, PTC also demanded that the network’s streaming platform Max halt marketing directed to youth through social media for the show, and requested that the streamer tighten up its “wide gaps in its parental ‘controls'” that is responsible for younger audiences having access to watch “The Idol” and “other explicit TV-MA content like ‘Euphoria.'”A representative for HBO did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

But parental controls for the streamer, which stands at a TV-MA rating, can be accessed within the app. “’The Idol’ has been rightfully panned by TV critics because each episode delves deeper into ‘torture porn’ and sexual abuse,” Parents Television and Media Council vice president Melissa Henson said in a statement.

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