For most of the Old Gods, it’s not that they can’t adapt, it’s that they won’t. Now she’s just a fortune teller and the world has forgotten about her. Wednesday, Zorya Vechernyaya recalls her glory days as a goddess opening the heavenly gates for her father and closing them upon his return. Without going as far as to place the camera between their legs, Salim and the Jinn left very little to the imagination.Įlsewhere, while reminiscing about her younger and friskier self with Mr. Even with the Americanized Queer as Folk, which couldn’t go an episode without a sexual scenario of some kind, had plenty of rear-end shots but mostly shied away from full-frontal nudity. Calling this the most explicit gay sex scene to ever be aired for a mainstream television audience may seem like a stretch, but I can’t think of anything that comes close. More explicit than any “exclusively gay moment” on HBO, Salim takes the Jinn (whom you’ll recognize from his brief appearance in Episode 2) back to his hotel room for a godly, pornographic experience with a variety of coital shots before a fiery (*clears throat*) finish. The moment where the goddess of sex swallows a lover inside of her vagina made it to the final cut, but when it comes to LGBTQ content, the stories are typically diluted for mainstream audiences - especially in America. Much like Bilquis’ introduction, there was that lingering question as to whether the show’s creative minds would remain faithful to the source material.