Monica Geller based the six main characters on some of their own friends and family; Monica is based on Kauffman herself. Observing that each main character was originally written as a "one-note stereotype", Jonathan Bernstein of "The Daily Telegraph" identified Monica as the group's "uptight fun-killer". When "Friends" first aired, the majority of its earliest episodes revolved around Monica, via whom each character appears to be interconnected; "Friends" stars the character's brother, her best friend, her former roommate and her two neighbors socializing in Monica's apartment. In the pilot, Monica is dumped almost immediately after sleeping with her new date Paul on
Incest in film and television Caligula and his sister Drusilla. The British soap opera "Brookside" ran a controversial storyline featuring consensual incestuous sex between the two sibling characters, Nat and Georgia Simpson, in the 1990s. In "The Killings at Badger's Drift", an episode of the British television series "Midsomer Murders", an old woman discovers a brother and sister in an incestuous relationship. The British soap "Family Affairs" featured a storyline involving Gavin and Polly Arnold, a brother and sister in a consensual incestuous relationship. In the "Coming Up" series for the UK's Channel 4, a woman who is obsessed with breaking social taboos seduces her