The White Lotus doubles down on incest plot: Lets just forget about it!

Spoilers ahead for the sixth episode of “The White Lotus” Season 3. They’re keeping it in the family. “The White Lotus” Season 3 took a bizarre turn towards incest in the fifth episode, as brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan Ratliff (Sam Nivola) shared a kiss last week.They were drinking, doing drugs and partying with Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon). The sixth episode revealed that their night didn’t end there — and neither did the incest. The next morning, both brothers keep remembering it in fragments, which made Saxon recoil: Lochlan had sex with Chloe while Saxon was on the bed next to them.

During the act, Lochlan reached over and stimulated Saxon with his hand. Later in the episode, Saxon, Chelsea and Chloe have a conversation about it. They discuss whether or not they’ve had “a threesome,” and Chloe says, “What about last night?” “That was my little brother,” Saxon argues.“That was a joke.

You guys forced us,” he adds, referring to how Chloe and Chelsea kissed before Chloe gestured that the brothers should kiss too. Chloe responds, “I didn’t force him to jerk you off.” A flustered and embarrassed Saxon snaps, “That never happened!” Chelsea says, “I don’t think there’s a drug in the world that would make me get with my brother.”Attempting to calm an agitated Saxon down, Chloe says, “Everyone has their thing.It’s fine.”Saxon says, “It’s not a thing.

Let’s just forget about it, please!” During a preseason interview, “The White Lotus” executive producer David Bernad revealed if there was any behind-the-scenes discussion about whether an incest plot was going too far. “No, in terms of that — that’s all [creator Mike White].Mike is brilliant, and I think those big story turns are not just for shock,” he exclusively told The Post. Bernad added, “There’s a specific reason in terms of the narrative storytelling, and the larger thematic...