SPOILER ALERT through The White Lotus, season 3, episode 6.
To nobody’s shock, the third season of Mike White’s The White Lotus has taken us on a wild ride. It took a moment for the show to take off, but the sixth episode featured the bang heard around the world and has left the internet in a total frenzy.
A few weeks ago, Harry Potter fans lost it when Jason Isaacs disrobed (though, to be fair, they were as equally shocked and outraged when Daniel Radcliffe did it on stage for Equus.
Then, last week, in the show’s fifth episode, on-screen brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola) shared a kiss, which prompted a mass of people clutching their pearls at the incestuous content. (It didn’t seem to be as big of a deal when it was done with a straight couple on Game of Thrones, but I digress.)
Well, if anyone felt uncomfortable with the kiss in the fifth episode, it had nothing on what happened in the sixth.
After the night that led to the kiss with Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), Saxon and Lochlan piece together what happened. The flashes see Lochlan and Chloe having sex, but also reveal that Lochlan is jerking Saxon off. Lochlan realizes what happens at the end of the episode during a meditation with his sister Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook).
Now judging by the reactions the internet is back in a frenzy.
Scroll through for some of our favorite reactions, and be sure to tune in on Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO to see where the rest of this season takes us.
"I think Mike White threw in the whole Saxon and Lochlan incest thing just to show us how a homophobic republican is made."
"I bet the Saxon/Lochlan morality police are absolutely beside themselves after last night’s episode of The White Lotus."
"The White Lotus episode 6 Saxon: Lochlan:"
"I'm already tired of seeing the White Lotus JO incest scene everywhere"
"yes i love the white lotus"
"me with the incestuous brothers from the white lotus"
"lorazepam mom: how was y’alls boat party saxon and lochlan: #TheWhiteLotus"
"Saxon and Lachlan remembering that Saxon touched him where he pees #TheWhiteLotus"
"lochlan remembering what happened the night before with saxon while meditating #TheWhiteLotus"
"Saxon thinking he fucked someone and then realizing he was watching his brother #TheWhiteLotus"
"Saxon still high af, he tryna remember if he jacked off to Chloe or Lochlan last night"
"they say lochlan touch saxon that’s why he’s quiet #WhiteLotus"
