There’s a catch. This is the most ridiculously censored verson of a TV show that you will have ever seen. Huge black boxes cover everything in the least bit questionable. This is Twin Peaks for the Bible Belt. Some examples (you can see them at the link above.)
The decapitated head is visible. The body from another person isn’t. Huge black box, or HBB for short.)
The statue of Venus in the Black Lodge? HBB over her bosom.
The woman who gets her face chewed by the monster in the glass box? HBB over her rear end.
And the pièce de résistance? The monster or alien or whatever hellish creature it be in the glass prison has a huge black box over its upper parts! I mean, someone somewhere could be aroused by its monster titties, right?
I’m sure there are many more examples in the 4 episodes but who on earth would watch to find out?
Is this really 2017? In which damn century are the censors from Google living? (I’m convinced Google is responsible and the only way Showtime could get their show replayed on YT was to go along with these insane conditions.)
I did watch the beginning of the first episode earlier today, when they were still available, and there was some text at the beginning stating that David Lynch had personally edited these versions.
If they were specifically cut for youtube, maybe I could understand. But since they’ve already been pulled I’m wondering if they were episodes. Being on Showtime and Showtime Streaming, it really wouldn’t make sense, oddly censored or not, for them to be on youtube.
I’m wondering if that was a pirated version.
Actually, I see that Showtime put them online, on youtube, for free over the past weekend. That would explain why there were there and gone.
My theory about Lynch censoring the statue is an FU for having to censor the other things, same for the giant boxes when it could have been more subtle (and this would go for any creator/director that had the nerve to do it). Keep in mind, the statue didn’t need to be censored on youtube, there’s about a billion clips of the Red Room, with the Statue, on youtube already.
I’d just assume an abundance of caution. Whether YouTube considers something sexual nudity is kinda random. As is whether they slap a mature warning or take something down.