Sin Cities.
April 5, 2008 11:10 AM Subscribe
The show Sin Cities hosted by Ashley Hames is NSFW or most other places.
Episodes include:
Human Furniture
Pig Man Fetish
and
Puppy Play Fetish
Episodes include:
Human Furniture
Pig Man Fetish
and
Puppy Play Fetish
You're not missing much, zennoshinjou. Hames come off worse than any of the freaks, the smarmy, smug prick.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:46 AM on April 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:46 AM on April 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
I love Sin Cities -- precisely because of Ashley Hames. He's like the Bizzaro Louis Theroux. Instead of making his excuses and leaving, Ashley gets stuck in and lets the dominatricies tie him up, drip candle wax over his genitals, etc. etc.
I'd skip the first season though. That was hosted by Grub Smith, who is much more laddish and totally lacking Ashley's charm and charisma.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 11:56 AM on April 5, 2008
I'd skip the first season though. That was hosted by Grub Smith, who is much more laddish and totally lacking Ashley's charm and charisma.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 11:56 AM on April 5, 2008
Nice find. The Sin Cities site you link to streams a lot of the shows.
posted by KokuRyu at 12:01 PM on April 5, 2008
posted by KokuRyu at 12:01 PM on April 5, 2008
I don't know how you can say he's smug and smarmy at all, Alvy Ampersand. He's always seemed to me to be genuinely curious, interested in the people that he's interviewing, to the extent that when they invite him to get involved, he'll get his kit off and give it a go.
Now, there are those who might think that that bit is a smug, cynical attempt to somehow manipulate the viewer, but that's not my reading. Often, Ashley's pain, his embarrassment and conversely, his arousal, are so real as to be almost palpable.
I'll agree though, he's much better when he's out of his comfort zone -- which he often was during seasons 2 and 3. When he's just doing a fairly straight vanilla sex piece with some Eastern European hooker/porn star, he's much less interesting.
The show is interesting in that it really does celebrate diversity. Compare it with some of the similar US sex magazine shows some time. Those programmes have an almost facistic reliance on depicting certain looks and certain body shapes. You get none of that with Sin Cities. Big ones, small ones, young ones, old ones, fat ones, thin ones -- they're all in there. And the show doesn't have that tongue in cheek sneering attitude that you see in some similar shows like Eurotrash, for example.
No, I think Sin Cities is a genuinely good show, and I think Ashley Hames is one of the major reasons why.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:08 PM on April 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
Now, there are those who might think that that bit is a smug, cynical attempt to somehow manipulate the viewer, but that's not my reading. Often, Ashley's pain, his embarrassment and conversely, his arousal, are so real as to be almost palpable.
I'll agree though, he's much better when he's out of his comfort zone -- which he often was during seasons 2 and 3. When he's just doing a fairly straight vanilla sex piece with some Eastern European hooker/porn star, he's much less interesting.
The show is interesting in that it really does celebrate diversity. Compare it with some of the similar US sex magazine shows some time. Those programmes have an almost facistic reliance on depicting certain looks and certain body shapes. You get none of that with Sin Cities. Big ones, small ones, young ones, old ones, fat ones, thin ones -- they're all in there. And the show doesn't have that tongue in cheek sneering attitude that you see in some similar shows like Eurotrash, for example.
No, I think Sin Cities is a genuinely good show, and I think Ashley Hames is one of the major reasons why.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:08 PM on April 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
PeterMcDermott: Consider me chastened, my bias was based on watching a few episodes of the first season and some half-remembered bits featuring Hames. Upon further perusal and your endorsement, I should put my jerky knee away and give Sin Cities another go.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:27 PM on April 5, 2008
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:27 PM on April 5, 2008
anywhere I can see the episodes on the website in the US? the site seems to only serve canadian viewers...
here.
posted by gman at 12:34 PM on April 5, 2008
here.
posted by gman at 12:34 PM on April 5, 2008
He's like the Bizzaro Louis Theroux
I thought more like a pervy Louis Theroux and no-one wants to see that.
posted by meech at 3:30 PM on April 5, 2008
I thought more like a pervy Louis Theroux and no-one wants to see that.
posted by meech at 3:30 PM on April 5, 2008
The Pigman fetish episode is crazy.
posted by Quartermass at 4:02 PM on April 5, 2008
posted by Quartermass at 4:02 PM on April 5, 2008
I thought more like a pervy Louis Theroux and no-one wants to see that.
Women *love* Louis Theroux. Whenever I've been watching an episode of his shows in female company, they've always been disappointed at his refusal to get all up-close-and-personal with Christine Hamilton, or to hop on into the back room with the swingers.
And if he'd just paid that little bit more attention to the woman with the Nazi pop-kids, who knows, perhaps he might have made a convert there?
Consider me chastened
I'm probably overselling him, Alvy Ampersand. It wasn't me who discovered him, but my youngest daughter -- who would have been sixteen at the time. I'm like 'What you watching?', and she was all 'Dad, you've gotta see this. This guy is just incredible.' And while he wasn't exactly incredible, I did find him very likeable, and seasons 2 and 3 very watchable. Not so's you'd go out of your way to watch it, mind. But if there was nothing else on, I'd always find that I'd enjoyed it afterwards.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:13 PM on April 5, 2008
Women *love* Louis Theroux. Whenever I've been watching an episode of his shows in female company, they've always been disappointed at his refusal to get all up-close-and-personal with Christine Hamilton, or to hop on into the back room with the swingers.
And if he'd just paid that little bit more attention to the woman with the Nazi pop-kids, who knows, perhaps he might have made a convert there?
Consider me chastened
I'm probably overselling him, Alvy Ampersand. It wasn't me who discovered him, but my youngest daughter -- who would have been sixteen at the time. I'm like 'What you watching?', and she was all 'Dad, you've gotta see this. This guy is just incredible.' And while he wasn't exactly incredible, I did find him very likeable, and seasons 2 and 3 very watchable. Not so's you'd go out of your way to watch it, mind. But if there was nothing else on, I'd always find that I'd enjoyed it afterwards.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:13 PM on April 5, 2008
The one where he went to Montreal and got a wine enema was hilarious.
posted by chococat at 6:14 PM on April 5, 2008
posted by chococat at 6:14 PM on April 5, 2008
I think the interesting thing is no one in this thread is particularly shocked or amazed by the Sin Cities YouTube links, which is probably a good thing. But it's also remarkable how much has changed over the last, say, ten years, all thanks to the Internet.
posted by KokuRyu at 6:28 PM on April 5, 2008
posted by KokuRyu at 6:28 PM on April 5, 2008
What are these tissues here for? Do you show weepy, sad films here? Like Watership Down?
Love it.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 8:19 PM on April 5, 2008
Love it.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 8:19 PM on April 5, 2008
A young, barely pubescent eclectist was first made aware of 'human furniture' in an issue of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed.
This is so not what I was expecting.
posted by eclectist at 12:20 AM on April 6, 2008
This is so not what I was expecting.
posted by eclectist at 12:20 AM on April 6, 2008
I met Hames in Japan, while they were shooting an episode for sin cities, the guy is genuinely nice and he's the heart of the show.
It's not all that well planned and a lot is actually resting on Hames shoulders, basically they put him in a weird situation and they follow his leads. So it's not like he's getting hired to play a pervy guy, he's the real deal.
posted by SageLeVoid at 1:10 AM on April 6, 2008
It's not all that well planned and a lot is actually resting on Hames shoulders, basically they put him in a weird situation and they follow his leads. So it's not like he's getting hired to play a pervy guy, he's the real deal.
posted by SageLeVoid at 1:10 AM on April 6, 2008
Aww. Those puppy people were so happy for the attention.
posted by cowbellemoo at 10:09 AM on April 6, 2008
posted by cowbellemoo at 10:09 AM on April 6, 2008
Women *love* Louis Theroux
Agreed. Sexy Louis is fine - pervy, not so much.
posted by meech at 1:12 PM on April 6, 2008
Agreed. Sexy Louis is fine - pervy, not so much.
posted by meech at 1:12 PM on April 6, 2008
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