The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Outrageous Oral Sex Scene, Explained – Men’s Health
HBO has long been a pioneer in the art of cable raunch, from the bedroom exploits of Carrie Bradshaw and the girls in Sex and the City, to more recent hits like Euphoria and Minx, which feature a whole bunch of sex scenes and full-frontal nudity, and The White Lotus, which brought ass-eating to the small screen in a way that has not been achieved since the original Queer as Folk back in 1999.
But the network may have topped itself—kind of literally—with the second episode of The Time Traveler’s Wife.
First, some context. Adapted by Steven Moffat from Audrey Niffenegger’s hugely popular novel of the same name, The Time Traveler’s Wife follows the love story of Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie) and the chronologically challenged Henry DeTamble (Theo James), who involuntarily travels back and forth between different points in his own life. This means that for the majority of the narrative, Clare and Henry are never both at the same point in their own timeline, and instead interact with past or future versions of each other.
This also means that Henry frequently meets alternate versions of himself. And sometimes things get… freaky.
Episode two of the show, which aired on Sunday night, gave viewers a little background on how Henry’s father found out that his son had the ability to time travel. In a scene which must have inevitably led to the most awkward father-son conversation of all time, Henry’s dad walks in on a teenage Henry (Brian Altemus) receiving a blowjob… from another teenage Henry (also Brian Altemus).
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The scene brings up a lot of questions that it is not especially interested in answering. For one, the revelation that Henry is a time-traveler means that his particular brand of auto-fellatio gets played for laughs rather than fully examined.
Is it gay to go down on another man if that man happens to be you? Was Henry genuinely experimenting with the idea of being with another guy, or merely taking advantage of a unique situation? Is his self-on-self-love more like the science fiction equivalent of masturbation? Narcissism? Incest, even?
It’s unlikely that the show will revisit such questions, as there is a whole lot of convoluted plot to get through in the episodes ahead. But if the TV series ends up anything like the previous film adaptation, this brief, hilariously weird scene may well end up being one of the more memorable things about it.
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