After School Specials - Did You Ever Observe That?

As the country becomes more complicated and as this moralism becomes further and further away from the savviness of actual people, the after school specials get a lot darker. There's one in 1987 where the synopsis is teenager Kevin discovers he's been infected with AIDS by a blood transfusion. And for the first time you see African American protagonists, that hasn't happened any of them before. Oh, wow. There's two on date rape. So there's one where the most popular boy at school rapes this girl. And it was like seen as a way of bringing attention to a acquaintance rape. You went a whole like 24 minutes without mentioning murder, Sarah. That was a really long time