The moment TV fans have been waiting for finally arrived on Friday night… the Gogglebox lot finally reached the infamous pillow scene in Obsession.
For those who’ve still not sat down to watch the raunchy Netflix show, which centres around a man who begins a passionate love affair with his son’s partner, only for the two to become increasingly infatuated with one another.
Obsession’s most talked-about scene sees William (played by Richard Armitage) arriving in a Paris hotel room where his son and girlfriend have been staying overnight.
After arriving in their room, he begins seeking out her scent on the bedding, before sniffing out a cushion and beginning a rather rigorous solo sex act.
And, naturally, this was the scene that the Gogglebox gang were treated to during Friday night’s instalment.
“They never show ordinary sex on TV,” Mary observed. “It’s always acrobatic or on a lavatory or people are standing on their heads or something.”
Her husband Giles later pointed out: “He’s not been doing much brain surgery… hasn’t he got a job to hold down?”
Meanwhile, on her own sofa, Jenny questioned: “What’s happened to him, Lee? He was a respectable doctor a few weeks ago. Now he’s a frigging sex perv.”
As the scene unfolded, Ronnie couldn’t believe his eyes as the character began “having a J Arthur” (rhyming slang that refers to industrialist J Arthur Rank, for those not in the know), while brother-and-sister duo Pete and Sophie cracked up imagining how the scene might play out.
“Imagine if they’ve forgotten something,” Sophie joked, with Pete adding: “‘Oh I forgot my phone charger!’. And dad’s there shagging the cushions.”
The final word went to David and Shirley, though, with the latter asking: “Imagine me walking in, and you had the pillow…”
“I don’t wanna go around shagging bloody pillows!” he insisted. “ You’d probably just walk out, ‘oh sorry to interrupt’. I bet you’d go like, ‘oh, saves me…’.”
And the Gogglebox stars’ commentary on the saucy scene went down a storm with viewers…
All four episodes of Obsession are available to watch now on Netflix. Gogglebox continues on Friday night at 9pm on Channel 4.