Same here. I find almost all new shows on TV dummed down and targeted for an immature audience. And in my opinion the assault started to happen in full force under Bill Clinton with his complicated new TV rating system. Seems like shows could push the decency envelope all they wanted as long as they showed the letter codes explaining the content.
Thank God for TCM and the few Retro TV channels available.
It goes back to at least the mid-70s where middle-class, white fathers were all depicted as bumbling morons with their “square, unhip” values like hard work, honesty and integrity.
Instead, we get “loser” dads who can’t control there own kids and who get nothing but sneers from those they are providing for.
I get enough rampant PCism as a college professor; I don’t need to subject myself to it in my off hours.