The Fox network features a rebooted "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" this year, turning the 1975 musical, comedy and horror cult classic film into a series.
Alexa Moutevelis Coombs from Newsbusters wrote in his review that the show is "wildly inappropriate," especially for young viewers, because it glorifies perversion on primetime TV.
"I mean, this is a musical that has its virgin character seducing a Frankenstein monster singing, 'Toucha-toucha-toucha-touch me, I wanna be dirty,'" he wrote. "Is that what you want to hear kids singing at school tomorrow? There is a reason the original was rated R and relegated to midnight showings for college students. But this version was brought to you by the same people kids watch all day."
Coombs wrote that the show is directed by Kenny Ortega, the same filmmaker behind the wildly popular "High School Musical" series from Disney. At the same time, the rebooted "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" featured Nickelodeon and Disney stars Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan, who play Janet and Brad, respectively.
"For those who don't know, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' is about an innocent, recently engaged couple (Janet and Brad), who knock at the door to a castle after their car breaks down in the rain, only to find a convention of gender-bending alien weirdos experimenting with their sexuality and they decide to join in," shared Coombs. "Obviously this is wildly inappropriate material for minors — and most people, really — to begin with, so I don't know how this remake got off the drawing board at Fox."
But that's not all. Fox even had the crazy idea of letting transgender actress Laverne Cox play the bisexual transvestite scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who was played in the original film by Tim Curry.
"What does it say about the state of our culture that all this was considered wild and transgressive in the 1970s but is now fine for a mainstream broadcast television event in 2016?" Coombs asked. "It's just a huge jump to the left, and then no steps to the right."
