And as far as the FX (I assume you are talking "The Shield", "Rescue Me" or "Nip/Tuck") and HBO ("Sopranos", "Deadwood") are concerned, there is a HUUUUUUGE difference between graphic sex/violence/language on these shows and the dreck on the big screen. If you can weed through the "filth", you'll find some pretty good writing and acting with a view not terribly different from average Joe American. Not the anti-American, anti-family screeds we get from George cLooney, Michael Moore-on and Rob "Meathead" Reiner.
And, in most of those series, people like those characters didn't marry the schoolmarm, drink tea at 4, and tut-tut the children when they did something wrong. The "filth" is, for better or worse, a somewhat accurate approximation of the way those people are in real life.
I love "Rescue Me". It's twistedly funny. Never could get into "The Shield" or "Nip/Tuck" though.