Another point to make about not being part of the TV scene now for a few years: The boiling lobster or frog or whatever animal, slowly but surely, is involved here. I have family members that seem to be immune now to the most awful crap. Okay. But, when someone like me walks by and gets a 5 second snippet of whatever was going on that moment, I believe I can better reflect on how much "the water temperature has increased" on the box. So, TV viewers just subtlety go deeper and deeper into the violence trance that it puts them into, where if one could just break that trance, you could see that the "temp is near the boiling point" of rape, suicide, killing, gore and blood.
