Well…if you incest! How INCEST became the norm on TV: Gossip Girl the latest to bring taboo subject to screens after Game of Thrones ‘relaunched’ twisted fantasy
- WARNING: SPOILERS!
- HBO’s Gossip Girl reboot is the latest show to feature an incest plotline
- Rick and Morty, House of the Dragon and White Lotus brought it to TV in 2022
- House of the Dragon character has sex with his niece and then marries her
- In White Lotus a character gets intimate with his ‘nephew’
HBO has long had a reputation for pushing the boundaries of TV, but the network’s recent fascination with incest storylines is not a plot twist we wanted to see in 2022.
Gossip Girl is the latest show to bring the taboo subject to the network, but HBO phenomenon Game of Thrones seemed obsessed with the topic so maybe we shouldn’t be surprised by the trend. That show deserves much of the blame for normalizing the twisted fantasy’s presence on the small screen.
Fans of the Gossip Girl reboot were shocked when it was revealed that twins Grace and Jake hooked up in a swanky New York hotel room and it wasn’t the only show to feature an incest storyline in 2022.
Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon (predictably), popular animated show Rick and Morty and cult favorite The White Lotus aired on HBO Max and all dabbled in inappropriate family relations.
Here, DailyMail.com looks at the top shows that brought incest to our screens in 2022…
Episode four of season two of Gossip Girl featured a shocking incest plotline involving twins Grace and Jake
Gossip Girl
Episode four of season two dropped on December 15 and many fans were shocked to see a sexual relationship between the twins Grace and Jake.
The bomb was dropped in the last 10 minutes of the show when Grace’s friends planned to publicly expose her for cheating on her boyfriend Obie at the Kiss on the Lips party.
Her friends Julien and Luna invited Grace’s mother Charlotte and brother Jake to witness the confrontation, where they believe they’re nailing her for hopping into bed with another man, Matias, at the Crosby Hotel in SoHo.
Gossip Girl fans were stunned by the taboo storyline in which a family secret was exposed
However, that theory soon begins to unravel and the family secret is exposed when Grace’s mother remembers that Jake also stayed at the Crosby Hotel while he was in town for a college interview.
‘Jake, you said this wouldn’t happen again,’ she said on the show, revealing her children’s incestuous deed.
‘Even I didn’t see that twincest coming,’ Luna said.
Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) and his niece Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) have an incestuous relationship in the Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon
In the Game of Thrones spin-off’s seventh episode, Daemon Targaryen and his niece Rhaenyra get married and have sex.
The Game of Thrones universe has many examples of incest
Before they are wed, in the fourth episode of the HBO show, Rhaenyra and her uncle engage in another incestuous activity.
He takes his young niece to the Westeros capital of King’s Landing where she visits a brothel and the pair share a kiss.
Milly Alcock, who plays a young Rhaenyra, said she had no idea what to expect as the first time she set eyes on the brothel location was when she arrived to film her scenes.
She explained: ‘That was our first time walking through the brothel, and he’s guiding her through the room with all of these other bodies.
‘So, that was quite shocking. You’re like: “This is kind of weird and silly.”‘
She said: ‘There were extras who we had just met who were like, 69-ing for 12 hours.
Milly Alcock plays a young Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon
‘It’s pretty gnarly, we felt pretty overdressed because everyone else was nude.’
She praised her co-star for making her feel comfortable during the scenes, adding that the pair had an intimacy coordinator to help them perform convincingly and said it wasn’t awkward to film.
‘No, strangely enough. [Matt Smith and I] were just kind of mates. So, it was quite comfortable. We had an intimacy coordinator, and we worked with her through the rehearsal process and blocked it out months before.’
The ending of one episode of The White Lotus saw socialite Tanya stumble upon Quentin having sex with his ‘nephew’ Jack
The White Lotus
In November The White Lotus left viewers stunned by a graphic sex scene between ‘two family members’ in an episode five cliffhanger.
The ending of episode five saw socialite and heiress Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) wake in the middle of the night and take a walk around a majestic villa in Palermo, Italy, which she had been invited to stay in by her new friend Quentin, played by Tom Hollander.
However, Tanya was left stunned when she stumbled upon Quentin having sex with his ‘nephew’ Jack in the final seconds of the episode.
Viewers were just as surprised as the character with many flocking to social media to share their shock, and musing about what this could mean for the plot.
One fan stated: ”So he’s f**king on his uncle? Is that really his nephew? What’s going on here?’
‘Screaming at that episode ending! Jaw is on the floor,’ another wrote, while one fan added: ‘THE ENDING WAS SO UNEXPECTED?!??!?’
Speaking about the surprising scene to E! News, Hollander explained: ‘Tanya witnessing it, it’s delicious and it makes you realize that [creator Mike White] really has got a plan and the writer really is going somewhere. He hasn’t lost his way with this story. It’s very, very confident.’
Hollander noted that the scene was somewhat similar to the first season of The White Lotus, where Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage’s character were caught in a sexual act.
The actor said: ‘In a way, it was “Ah, there it is! There’s that scene!”. That unforgettable moment where someone pulls back a curtain and you see something that is intensely private that is not supposed to be watched by everyone else.’
Oh my god: Jennifer Coolidge’s character is stunned by a seemingly illicit tryst at the end of the fifth episode of The White Lotus season two
Speaking about the surprising scene to E! News, Hollander explained: ‘Tanya witnessing it, it’s delicious and it makes you realize that [creator Mike White] really has got a plan and the writer really is going somewhere. He hasn’t lost his way with this story. It’s very, very confident.’
Hollander also noted that the scene was somewhat similar to the first season of The White Lotus, where Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage’s characters were caught in a sexual act.
The actor said: ‘ In a way, it was “Ah, there it is! There’s that scene!”. That unforgettable moment where someone pulls back a curtain and you see something that is intensely private that is not supposed to be watched by everyone else.’
He continued: ‘I just think transgressive sex is sexier. I guess I’m old school. There’s this Gothic vibe of walking through a haunted hotel or haunted house and people are having sex behind closed doors.’
As for whether Quentin and Jack are actually related, White teased, ‘Well, you’ll have to see.’
A Rick and Morty plotline centers on the possibility of incest between Jerry Smith and his mom
Rick and Morty
In the episode titled Final DeSmithation, Jerry Smith receives a fortune cookie at Panda Express that predicts he’ll have sex with his mother.
The spooked character worries the fortune will come true, despite his wife Beth telling him to not be concerned about it.
While the family prepares to go to the zoo, Rick says his probability detector is sensing something off with Jerry and that the father should say behind for an examination.
The detector warns that Jerry’s fortune could come true and the two head back to Panda Express.
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After a shootout with the Chinese restaurant’s employees, Rick and Jerry are directed to a company called Fortune 500, which is run by a Gwyneth Paltrow-inspired character named Jennith Padrow-Chunt.
Padrow-Chunt tells Jerry her fortune cookies can manifest destiny and the cheesy, normal ones are used to find the real ones. She also says that Jerry is temporarily immortal until his fortune comes true.
Later in the episode, Padrow-Chunt brings Jerry’s mother to the factory to bring him closer to his destiny, but ultimately the fortune is never fulfilled.
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