Furious Netflix fans threaten to 'cancel subscription' over inappropriate new drama
- Controversial series Supersex is based on famed Italian adult star Rocco Siffredi
- Netflix fans threaten to cancel their subscriptions over steamy clip from drama
Furious Netflix fans have threatened to 'cancel their subscriptions' after viewing an explicit clip from a new X-rated drama.
Supersex is loosely based on the life of Rocco Tano, a simple guy from Ortona, Italy, who becomes Rocco Siffredi, the most famous porn star in the world.
The seven-part series stars Alessandro Borghi as Siffredi, whose humble beginnings are revisited as the plot navigates his extraordinary career as one of the most prolific adult actors of all time.
Since his debut performance in 1986, Rocco Siffredi has starred in more than 1,500 X-rated films and is believed to have bedded in excess of 5,000 people.
The drama has been rated by Netflix strictly for viewers aged 18 and over - but that hasn't stopped fans from sharing their disgust over the 'inappropriate' content released by the steaming giant.
Sickened Netflix fans have threatened to cancel their subscription after viewing an explicit clip from new drama Supersex, based on the life of famed Italian adult star Rocco Siffredi
The steamy, seconds-long scene was posted by Netflix on its U.S. Instagram page on March 7, before it was mysteriously deleted.
The short video featured the show's star, the Italian actor Alessandro Borghi, making out and thrusting against several scantily clad women.
However, the clip disappeared from Netflix U.S. Instagram account after a few hours, though it's unclear if the platform deleted it amid complaints from users, or if Netflix opted to remove it due to negative fan feedback.
A number of Netflix users shared their disgust over the subject of the new controversial series, while others threatened to cancel their subscription altogether to protect their children.
Taking to the comments below the now-deleted video, one person fumed: 'Now we have porn on Netflix as well? Cancelling account while we speak, my kids can't see this.'
Another parent wrote: 'Isn't this inappropriate for a platform where KIDS FOLLOW YOU?!'
Other users were left appalled by the explicit content being 'normalised,' with one person commenting: 'Are we just making porn mainstream now? It's pretty sickening that there is no warning on explicit content like this.
'Yet women who post a picture breastfeeding are flagged. This should be a separate category on Netflix if you want to put stuff like this out.'
The short video featured the show's star, Italian actor Alessandro Borghi, making out and thrusting against several scantily clad women
Another wrote: 'It's really sad that this is accepted in modern culture. The hyper-sexualisation of our society and generation is depressing and degrading to the value of both genders.'
Meanwhile, fans who viewed the official trailer on Netflix's Youtube channel shared their thoughts on the explicit series, with one person writing: 'I'm not sure I like the direction Netflix is going.'
Another fan commented: 'What's going on with Netflix. Bring back the good stuff.'
A number of Netflix users shared their disgust over the subject of the new controversial series, while others threatened to cancel their subscription altogether to protect their children
Francesca Manieri, the filmmaker behind the series, told the Independent: 'My goal was to put men in front of themselves.
'This is what we call the phallocentric system, the system in which the d*** is the centrum of the thought before everything.'
She added: 'So what can you do right now, [in] 2024, to understand the relationship between men and women? And how can men put themselves in front of the image of their symbolic d*** and try to deconstruct all of this?'
It comes after Netflix viewers were previously left disturbed by the streaming site's extraterrestrial docuseries Raël: The Alien Prophet in February.
The four-part documentary covers the life of Claude Vorilhon - a French journalist who promised 'out of this world' ecstasy and enlightenment to anyone who followed the teachings he claimed to have learned via his supposed alien abduction in 1973.
