begins its second run on June 17, with the new season landing on Max (formerly HBO Max) and, in India, on JioCinema. However, the new season landed in India with some controversy. Thanks to a post by a social media portal, there is this report that the first episode of Season 2 has been uploaded on JioCinema with its scenes censored.
The main reason that the portal, and even some netizens, feel this way is that the episode uploaded on Max is longer than that on JioCinema. As per reports, the episode being aired on international sites is about 58 minutes, but in JioCinema, it is about 55 minutes. So this reduction of three minutes means scenes have been cut from the Indian upload, right? Adding fuel to this speculative fire is a recent incident involving another popular show.
Prime Video's s recently began its fourth season, dropping three episodes last week. However, Prime Video India has uploaded the episodes with some of the nudity either blurred or CGI-ed. This can be verified by this writer, who had watched the episodes from the screeners sent by the production house, but was shocked to find a couple of scenes being 'censored' when the episodes started airing on Prime Video India.
. With that in mind, netizens are now rooting for piracy. With the present allegation against JioCinema, some of them believe the streaming platforms are not delivering the content in the way intended by the makers for which they have paid.
First, S4 was cut and censored by Now, shortens the epi.