Law & Order:SVU

Today I watched an episode of Law & Order:SVU that had a ton of twists in the plot. First, the show started with a little girl telling Olivia Benson that her mom was having sex with her step-brother. Next, the husband of the woman ended up dead and they found a bloody baseball bat under the bed of the son who they thought was having sex with the stepmother. To make things even more weird, the mother marries the stepson so that he doesn't have to testify against her because of spousal privilege. In the end, we find out that the women was having an affair with another man, who she framed as raping her by planting his frozen sperm on her and also convincing him to kill her husband so they could be together. In the end, the son divorces his stepmother and the stepmother is arrested for having her boyfriend kill her husband and planting evidence on herself to frame him.
To me, this episode challenges once again the cultural norm of sex between family members, even if not blood related, is wrong. This stepmother has sex with her stepson when he's only 16 and then marries him! That certainly challenges what most people would view as normal. Also, the show really capitalized on the viewers emotions by playing dramatic music when they revealed another twist in the plot and moving the camera close in to someone's face when they were being told something they didn't know before. In addition, this episode definitely showed the advantages someone with money and fame has when they are being charged with something or on trial. The stepmother was a famous actress, and she was able to get her son out of a bail of more than one million dollars and she also was able to hire a lawyer that was one of the best in New York City.