Incest | Story 2

For a long time, family drama was simple: The stern father, the saintly mother, the rebellious child. But modern storytelling has evolved into something much juicier:

This duality creates "cognitive dissonance" for the audience. We hate the manipulative mother, but we weep when we see a flashback of her own tragic youth. We despise the arrogant brother, but we understand that his arrogance is a shield against the father who never loved him. incest story 2

Most of us don’t have families as wealthy and corrupt as the Roys or as dramatic as the Carringtons. But we all have that one uncle who drinks too much, or that silent tension between our parents, or the sibling who always gets away with everything. For a long time, family drama was simple: