

That company that makes the kind of silicone female skin suits that would make “The Silence of the Lamb’s” Buffalo Bill jealous? It’s a family business run by a widow and her two sons. That prostitute at the brothel? Turns out she’s a grandmother of nine.

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Still, this isn’t a series to watch with the family.īut as squirm-inducing as some of the segments can be, the series doesn’t appear interested in creating a sense of lurid wish fulfillment. The Seven Deadly Sins, Nanatsu no Taizai are the strongest and cruelest order of Holy Knights in the Kingdom of Liones. Spurlock and company don’t shy away from gratuitous shots of desperately unhealthy-looking people lovingly ingesting these disgusting-looking creations, but thankfully they focus the sex toy segment on the creation and not the enjoyment of the items. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have staged a Coup détat and assassinated the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the. The gluttony episode profiles the founder of the notorious Heart Attack Grill, a Las Vegas restaurant committed to creating coronary distress in anyone who chooses to eat its sloppy Bypass Burgers and lard-saturated French fries. The Seven Deadly Sinsa group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britanniawere said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. And in true pay-cable fashion, Spurlock and co-creator Jeremy Chilnick are interested in nothing less than the most extreme and shocking cases.įor example, the episode on lust features Exotic Erotics, a company that creates life-casted sex toys molded from real animal genitalia, including from horses and dogs, and elephant trunks and giraffe tongues. “7 Deadly Sins” centers each of its episodes on one of Christianity’s famous cardinal sins: gluttony, envy, lust, wrath, pride, greed and sloth. Based on the subject matter, that decision may have been for the good of his own health. Part of documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s method has long been to insert himself into the story - it’s served him well from his debut feature, “Super Size Me,” a decade ago right up to his recent CNN series, “Inside Man.” But for his new seven-episode series on Showtime, “7 Deadly Sins,” which begins Thursday, the never camera-shy Spurlock has restricted his role to that of a simple introductory host, appearing Alfred Hitchcock-like in a series of campy wrap-around segments.
