The White Lotus 3: The incestuous kiss of episode 5 explained

Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola are on a boat …

The Ratliff family is really strange … but season 3 of The White Lotus has crossed a new limit in its fifth episode. Attention spoilers!

The HBO series staged a kiss between two brothers, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola), during a trip was watered on a yacht. An embarrassing ambiguous relationship, which the executive producer David Bernad explains in the New York Poststressing that this scene is not a simple shock effect:

“”All this comes from (Mike White). Mike is a genius, and his narrative twists are never free. They serve a precise statement, both from the point of view of scriptwriting and the general theme that he seeks to explore. “”

Bernad also said that this scene is part of a broader logic concerning the history of the two brothers:

“”As the season progresses, you will understand why this choice was made. The series goes to the end of this idea for a very specific reason. I love this family intrigue, and in particular the relationship between the brothers. It leads to a very satisfactory conclusion. “

Incest is a tradition in HBO, which did not hesitate to mark the moment by publishing a post on social networks referring to its history of series featuring incestuous relationships between brothers and sisters, in particular Game of Thrones And House of the Dragon. “Family First” (“The family above all”) writes HBO in comment.

Charlotte Le Bon was on the scene. And the Canadian actress tells in an interview with Vulture that Patrick Schwarzenegger had trouble turning this kiss:

“Obviously, Sam and he are not brothers by blood, which has made things easier … But for Patrick, it was really difficult. Sam, on the other hand, was more relaxed: ‘Let’s do it well and it will be over.’ Because if it is not successful the first time, we have to start again and again.

Season 3 of The White Lotus will continue next Monday in France on Max.