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I was thinking back to some things that I have seen on television. The stuff parents let their kids watch, the stuff that kids can sneak to watch.

I remember two episodes of 'Law and Order,' one involved a man that was an extremely Islamophobic white male that burned a Middle Eastern woman and sodomised another Middle Eastern man with a pipe. The white guy did this, because his mother put it in his head that his father betrayed them by marrying and starting a family with a Middle Eastern woman.

The second one was about this dad that gets these men off the street to have sex with his wife and his daughter. He has like a second daughter, but the detectives were afraid that she would become a sex slave once she hit puberty. So, they take the little girl and the little boys that happen to be the wife's kids that she had with the men her husband brought in from off the streets. His first daughter, the eldest became a run away.

At the climax of the 'Law and Order' episode the father says, "I can do whatever I want, because I am God!" or something along those lines and his eldest, run away daughter who happens to be pregnant by men that her own father brought off the street to have sex with her, shoots him right as she is going into labor. She responds that he has no right to say he is God or something like that.

Those two episodes greatly freaked me out as a kid as did 'Degrassi' and their portrayal of traumatic high school experiences of their characters like Paige getting raped, a school shooting, those sorts of things. I don't understand the appeal, there is nothing, but scary drama.