Monica Geller would eventually become popular staples of the show. Several months before "Friends" premiered, NBC had conducted a research report, the results of which determined that Monica was the only character to have been remotely well received by test audiences. When "Friends" first aired, critics initially perceived Monica – who was immediately established as the show's "mother hen" – and Cox as the series' main character and star, respectively. Critics have been largely receptive towards both Cox and her character; the "Los Angeles Times" holds Cox's acting responsible for disproving the stigma that attractive women are incapable of delivering comedic performances.
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