I remember a VICE article from a decade ago picked up the trend and some people on neogaf attributed the sudden rise in popularity to the Lannisters in GoT. It made sense back then since the show and the spike in viewership for the genre both happened around the same time.
Deleuze & Guattari would argue step-fantasies are a byproduct of modern psychology’s perspective of “sanity” being founded on Oedipalism.
Neat, a D&G namedrop in the wild.
It’s a byproduct of divorce rates and mixed families.
I remember a VICE article from a decade ago picked up the trend and some people on neogaf attributed the sudden rise in popularity to the Lannisters in GoT. It made sense back then since the show and the spike in viewership for the genre both happened around the same time.