Violence is the new trend in television. Fox's The Following, which premiered on Monday, showed a couple dozen murders and a mutilated dog in its first episode. NBC also debuts Hannibal later this season, which is also about a serial killer. Do No Harm, another doctor drama on NBC, features a physician who moonlights as a murderer. And there are more.
Read this lengthy critic about this growing trend of blood and gore in today's TV. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-ryan/violence-tv_b_2541883.html