Netflix is continuing to corner the market in trashily compelling content, from reality dating shows like Love Is Blind and Perfect Match to steamy dramas like Sex/Life, which broke the internet in its first season with a jaw-droppingly well-endowed scene of full frontal male nudity.
The streaming giant has just dropped another show in a similar vein, the four-part erotic thriller Obsession, starring Richard Armitage, Indira Varma, Rish Shah and Charlie Murphy, and viewers are already having strong reactions to a specific WTF moment in the second episode.
Want to see a grown man fuck a pillow? Obsession is the show for you.
The premise is thus: William is married to Ingrid, and they have a grown-up son called Jay. William is feeling stifled in his marriage, and when Jay brings home his new girlfriend Anna, William is instantly attracted to her. The feeling is mutual, and the two embark on a salacious and intense affair which drives William to the brink of his own sanity.
We won’t spoil the entire show for you, as there are twists, turns and steamy sex scenes aplenty, but if you want a glimpse of just how deranged William becomes during his secret relationship with Anna, you’ll want to skip ahead to around 25 minutes into Episode 2.
Jay and Anna have gone to Paris on vacation, but unbeknownst to Jay, William has followed them to their hotel. He tricks the concierge into letting him into their room while they aren’t there, and immediately begins to search the place for traces of Anna, eventually sniffing the bedlinen and pillows for her scent.
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There is a moment when William sits up, and the viewer might think Oh good, he has come to his senses. But he has not. Instead, he takes off his shirt and begins to masturbate, eventually flipping over onto his front and, yes that’s right, grinding against the pillow while moaning in what sounds like a mix of desire, despair, and indigestion.
Because is it really love until somebody has humped a cushion?
The moment was, in all likelihood, not designed to be particularly sexy, but rather a sign of how far gone William is at this point. Armitage himself has said as much, telling Digital Spy: “”I was really conscious that it shouldn’t be in any way comedic.”
Somebody should probably tell the internet that.
Philip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV.
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