I completely agree with the reviewer about the disturbing depiction of the violence in this episode, but I disagree with the idea that the kiss, for example, is disturbing because it is "person-on-person-prelude-to-a-rape kissing." We have become fairly used to seeing women forced to kiss before rapes -- this kiss is disturbing not because it is a male-male kiss (at least not to non-homophobes) or because is is "person-on-person-prelude-to-a-rape kissing" but because we rarely see men as the powerless victims of sexualized violence. And forcing a kiss emphasized that this violence is sexualized and not the kind of violence that we are more used to seeing men deal with all over media. Yes, this was a disturbingly shot scene, but it's important to realize that much of the disturbance comes from the fact that we are not used to seeing men in this kind of position.
