Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola Kiss in Incestuous White Lotus Scene

Warning: this story accommodates spoilers from episode 5 of The White Lotus season 3.

Issues are getting a bit too shut for consolation on The White Lotus.

If followers didn’t already sense an unsettling dynamic between brothers Lochlan and Saxon Ratliff — performed by Sam Nivola and Patrick Schwarzenegger, respectively — on the Mike White drama, they actually really feel it now. Episode 5 of the hit HBO drama’s third season, which aired on Sunday, March 16, noticed issues take an incestuous flip between the 2.

Whereas partying on the mainland with fellow White Lotus visitor Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden) and her new buddy Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon), the 4 took a thriller tablet, which in the end led to a trippy after-party on Chloe’s yacht.

As Saxon eliminated his shirt and Lochlan sipped alcohol out of a shell, everybody danced underneath the boat’s purple lighting. One factor led to a different, and Chloe and Chelsea ended up making out in entrance of the boys earlier than Lochlan went in for a kiss of his personal with Chloe.

Saxton threw his fingers up within the air after making it his mission to assist his little brother lose his virginity earlier than they return dwelling. However then, the ladies recommended the siblings share a kiss.

Lochlan obliged and gave Saxon a peck, earlier than leaning again in and grabbing his brother’s neck for a full makeout, a lot to Chloe and Chelsea’s amusement.

Some viewers sensed an odd vibe between the brothers because the first episode, which confirmed Lochlan seemingly unable to take his eyes off Saxon as he walked to the toilet utterly bare. 

Schwarzenegger, 31, teased the connection throughout an interview with The Radio Occasions in February, explaining how he made sense of his character’s habits.

“I believe that one of many issues that we labored on as a gaggle, as a household, was to attempt to create that dynamic: the closeness, however the oddness, the weirdness we thought was regular, the older brother to youthful brother relationship,” he mentioned. “However I believe that Saxon truly actually does care about his brother.”

“I believe that the connection along with his brother — though it’s totally odd and bizarre, which is what Liza Esquibias Mike [White] needed — it is nonetheless very loving on the identical time,” he continued. “I imply, it is simply that Saxon has this false notion and thought of what he thinks makes a person and who he thinks he’s, and he is making an attempt to groom his youthful brother to develop into that.”

The Ratliff household is actually removed from regular. Whereas Lochlan and Saxon work out their dynamic, their father, Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) discovers that he’s underneath investigation by the FBI for his multimillion-dollar enterprise dealings again dwelling.

In the meantime, his spouse, Victoria Ratliff, performed by Parker Posey, relaxes with copious quantities of lorazepam and their daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) grows pissed off by her household.

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The White Lotus airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Max.