The recent plot unfolding of the popular series The White Lotus has skimmed its fingers across the tips of an iceberg. A character's dubious remarks towards his own siblings have left the audience a little shaken by where this could take the show. But to think of it as the only one to portray tabooed and unconventional relationships, specifically between familial connections, would be wrong because many had walked before The White Lotus could ever run.

Looking into the same, here are 7 shows that portrayed taboo before The While Lotus did.

Set in 16th century England, following the reign of Henry the VIII, the show depicts marriages between cousins, as is known to be a norm amongst royal families during the time. 

Following the death of their father, and their only parent, the Dollanganger siblings are forced to live in brutal circumstances, hidden together in an attic belonging to their unsparing grandmother. Being locked up ensues the thriller slash romance of the show. 

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Characters Brenda and Billy are insinuated to have an intimate relationship, which the audience often regards in the way they did not have any other dependable entity in their lives, apart from one another.

Based on a novel series by Charlaine Harris, the show follows a vampire mystery plotline, with its eccentrically graphic frames, and of course, an intimate involvement between characters holding familial relationships. 

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers from 2003, portrays a heavily codependent relationship between two siblings, or twins, in regards to which the viewer's brain is muddled by the statement that “(the twins) are two halves of the same person”.

A dark comedy piece, where the central character, Jackie Pascale who holds deep admiration for Jacqueline Kennedy, loses grip on herself when finds out her brother Marty has returned home with a fiance.

While inter-familial relationships had been a taboo in every religion in Westeros, it was not something that the nobility shied away from or the creators of the show who tried to simmer it down from the books either, rather, exploring to lengths what the results of these relationships can be, and while the series was wrapped up in 2019, a movie is said to be under the works as well

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What other movies and TV shows are worth mentioning in this list? And what do you think will this new plot point in The White Lotus lead? Let us know in the comments below!