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S3. I really hope incest isn't a thing this season...


I hope I am wildly misreading the subtext of this family. I can handle a lot, but I really don't need a bunch of family members dreaming about humping each other. I don't need any boundary pushing with sex. Just a good story please. Pooping in a suitcase is enough for me.

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What about the other character from last season who was having sex with his uncle???

Just because Tanya assumed Quentin wasn't his uncle doesn't mean he wasn't. And when Portia confronted him about it the guy also never denied or admitted that Quentin wasn't his uncle.

In other words, perhaps the boundary that you say you don't need pushing was already pushed for us last season???


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If that really was his uncle, then Mike White has some trauma he needs to address off camera. This seasons version of his fetish is very overt and gross.

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Did a search to see how common incest is and found this:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4010601/

It is a problem that can be seen in all social classes in developed and undeveloped societies. Although incest is a worldwide problem, it remains a neglected social issue.

The World Health Organization classifies this problem as a silent health emergency.

Father – daughter incest (34.9%) was found to be most common incest type followed by brother – sister incest (14%). 75% of the perpetrators were family members and relatives with consanguinity while 25% of them were not consanguineous but faithful and intimate relatives to victims.


So whereas you chose to assume that the creator of the show has issues, perhaps he's just addressing a problem that is more common than one would otherwise assume it to be???


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We'll just have to see where he goes with it.

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According to what those who have the first 6 episodes of the show have to say (due to the way they write professional reviews of it), you're definitely NOT "misreading the subtext" of what's going to happen.

The way the younger brother looks at the rear end of his naked older brother as he walks towards the bathroom (to jerk off to some porn on his laptop) definitely seems to foreshadow what might happen in the proceeding episodes that we have coming up.

And it's also curious as to how the older brother (SAXON) objects to the younger brother (Lochlan) sharing a bedroom with their sister ... by saying that it isn't appropriate for him to do so.

So was that a hypocritical remark on Saxon's part (due to the way he wants the younger brother sleeping in his room because he's the one who wants to seduce him)???

Or will SAXON be the one who gets seduced by Lochlan?

Or could the reason why SAXON objects to Lochlan sharing a room with the sister be due to Saxon wanting to seduce the sister himself (who he also claims has never been laid before)???

Since Lochlan also chose to join and first spend time with his sister before later joining Saxon at the pool, perhaps what may happen is Lochlan will defend the sister if Saxon does try to seduce her???

So instead of our witnessing an actual incest situation taking place, what may happen is Lochlan's putting a stop to that kind of a situation ever happening???

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