To discuss the taboo, one must first acknowledge the architect of its modern study: Sigmund Freud. While his Oedipus complex is often misrepresented as a literal desire for the mother, contemporary psychoanalysts reinterpret it as a struggle for .

The title evokes broader archetypes found in literature and psychology, specifically the "Dark Mother" or "Terrible Mother".

Hollywood and international cinema have long been fascinated with the taboo charming mother, because film can explore the aesthetic without real-world consequence.

Sigmund Freud’s concept of the unheimlich (the uncanny) applies to the setting of the series. The home, traditionally a sanctuary of safety and family values, is transformed into a site of danger and sexual deviance. The living room, the kitchen, and the bedroom—spaces associated with the innocence of domestic labor—are eroticized.