The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.
There’s a long running plot in season 4 that climaxes w/ forced impregnation (in a surgical manner). So while no genitals are mutilated- there’s def some vaginal trauma/horror
Also Season 2, Episode 11 at the very, very end of the episode. After Barb leaves her mother, she goes into a room, pulls back the sheets and there are two rattlesnakes on the bed.
Often. The show also glosses over several situations of r*pe by portraying them as more moral because the child was ‘in love’, including main characters