TV Goes Gruesome

I'll admit that I  (used to) enjoy watching television and find it relaxing in the evenings.   I generally don't watch during the day.  There have been a few shows during the week that I enjoy,  or get hooked on,  or like the characters.   Usually my favorites get cancelled.

 I loved Brothers and Sisters--cancelled.  I enjoyed the ensemble cast on Private Practice--cancelled.   But increasingly,  a show that I might have started off watching,  I end up being unable to continue watching (Body of Proof).

I simply cannot handle watching anything that is really gory.  It seems that the police shows, the crime solving shows, the medical examiner shows, the medical shows all are in the mode of amp-ing up the gore.   It appears that with each season,  the producers feel the need to continually increase the gruesome-ness---with more blood and body parts and violence and edginess.

I watched a show last night.....(or more accurately, listened to most of it...couldn't look) and there were horrible torture scenes.   This is season two of that show.  The first year was not like that at all.  I am so disappointed.  I also had terrible nightmares!  There are two shows left until the season is over.  I'm not sure that I can, or care to watch those last two shows.  It is so deeply disturbing!

The best show on television, in my humble opinion, is Downton Abbey on PBS,  but the season is a few short weeks long, and then one has to wait an entire year to see those characters again!  (the ones that don't get killed off!!).

What a disappointment American television has become!  I suppose we get de-sensitized to it after a while, at least to some degree.  I sometimes wonder what those who come to this country from other places think when they see those shows on TV.

I know we don't live in the 50's any more.  And we don't live in Kansas.   And I'm not the demographic they target.  But, oh for something wholesome, or just half way decent, to watch on television!

Is that really too much to ask???