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.
freaky.Įpisode 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. This also means that Henry frequently meets alternate versions of himself. 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. 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. 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.īut the network may have topped itself-kind of literally-with the second episode of The Time Traveler's Wife.įirst, some context.
