Vikings creator Michael Hirst slammed Game Of Thrones for its “gratuitous” sex as he defended a graphic sado-masochistic scene in his own show.
Vikings, which features much less nudity than Game Of Thrones because of US network TV regulations, shocked fans at the end of the third series when Count Odo, played by Irish actor Owen Roe, was seen whipping a naked French noblewoman (The Fall’s Karen Hassan) in his dungeon.
But Michael, who also penned bodice-ripper The Tudors, promised there would be a “pay-off” for viewers from the storyline when the show returns for a fourth series on Friday.
He said: “I feel like a lot of other people that sex in Game Of Thrones and other shows is completely gratuitous and unnecessary and a lot of the violence is gratuitous… It’s largely to shock.”
He argued that the use of BDSM in Vikings was part of “a big storyline, a big pay-off. It’s part of (Odo’s) character so it’s not gratuitous.”
Vikings, which features much less nudity than Game Of Thrones because of US network TV regulations, shocked fans at the end of the third series when Count Odo, played by Irish actor Owen Roe, was seen whipping a naked French noblewoman (The Fall’s Karen Hassan) in his dungeon.
But Michael, who also penned bodice-ripper The Tudors, promised there would be a “pay-off” for viewers from the storyline when the show returns for a fourth series on Friday.
He said: “I feel like a lot of other people that sex in Game Of Thrones and other shows is completely gratuitous and unnecessary and a lot of the violence is gratuitous… It’s largely to shock.”
He argued that the use of BDSM in Vikings was part of “a big storyline, a big pay-off. It’s part of (Odo’s) character so it’s not gratuitous.”
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