House of the Dragon fans know there’s always plenty of uncomfortable drama filling the halls of the Red Keep. But season three’s nexus of cringe shifted far from King’s Landing in this week’s “The Dragon in Winter,” when the Targaryen urge for inbreeding took a particularly uneasy turn.

If you’ve read this far, you probably already know, but this week’s episode featured a love scene between Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and his mother, Alicent (Olivia Cooke)—a scenario made more believable by the fact that Aemond gave his mother a lingering kiss on the lips when he departed for Harrenhal earlier in the season.

House of the Dragon lets the intimacy…

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