A new cartoon from Amazon Prime called “Hazbin Hotel” contains an episode that shows a character being “gang raped” and other characters wearing BDSM attire.
Started as a pilot on YouTube in 2019, the new rated 18+ animated musical series launched on Friday on the streaming site. Following the pilot’s massive success, Independent studio A24 produced an 8-part series, four episodes of which hit the streaming site on Friday, Newsbusters.org reported.
The series is set in hell, with Heaven described as heartless and cruel. Satan is not evil but is just a “rebellious dreamer” but “troublemaker” who’s been “cast out of” Heaven because he just wanted “to give human beings free will,” the outlet noted.
The introduction to the show included an explanation that in order for Hell, growing in numbers, to never create an army to defeat and take over Heaven, once a year, Heaven sends an army to keep Hell’s number’s down.
The NSFW clip promoting the series can be viewed via X.
Yahoo.com broke down Season 1, laying out the characters like Lucifer and Lilith’s daughter Charlie who opens a hotel “as a sort of moral rehab for sinners to cleanse their souls and escape Heaven’s wrath.”
The LGBTQ series features Charlie and her girlfriend named “vaggie” along with other characters like gay porn stars, a sadistic maid, and more. The show is laced with NSFW cuss words like “c**t,” “f**k,” Newsbusters noted.
In the fourth episode, titled “Masquerade,” porn star Angel Dust’s BDSM relationship is front and center along with a musical number titled “Poison,” Newsbusters noted. In the show, Angel looks up in fear as he is about to be “gang raped” by multiple creatures and is also shown going down a stripper pole, being “chained and choked.”
While the show is rated for adults, the merchandise from the show is geared towards teens and a younger audience, like “South Park,” a show which inspired the series creator Vivienne Medrano.
“I’ve always been really, really influenced by adult comedy,” Medrano told Gizmodo. I saw ‘South Park’ at very young age and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, swearing is so fun.’ It really just changed the entire trajectory of my career.”
“So making an adult animated comedy was always kind of in the cards for me, but I’m also a huge musical theater fan,” she added. “So to combine that into this raunchy musical that’s animated and looks so fluid and appealing was all the things I love, and that really resonated with people.”
A second season has already been ordered, the outlet noted.