Jett's portrayal of nudity and sexuality is highly unusual for a premium cable TV series

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"Like every other Cinemax original, Jett earns its TV-MA-rating: suggestive dialogue, coarse or crude language and violence, it’s all there," says Melanie McFarland. "Unlike other shows meriting a 'sexual situations' label prior to the opening credits sequence, the treatment of nudity in Jett gives no reason to brace oneself for the expectation of being horrified. On the contrary, Jett is the very rare show that artfully incorporates nudity and sexuality in its cinematic dialogue. Which characters are naked and the context in which the nudity occurs, the circumstances that call for it and extent that the camera reveals it — all of these elements are integral to (creator Sebastian) Gutierrez’s storytelling. This makes the series’ treatment of sex and sensuality different from other series on Cinemax and most of premium cable. Where other series exploit naked and primarily female bodies as a means of titillation, placing it on par with violence and degradation, the nudity in Jett is designed to be an equal opportunity, universally pleasing trompe l’oeil. And it’s presented in various degrees with very different emotional implications to demonstrate the characters’ relationships to each other and the plot itself."