Huffington Magazine Issue 38 | Page 64

TV BROOKE PALMER/NBC Exit HUFFINGTON 03.03.13 Want Viewers? You’ll Have to Gouge Some Eyes Out. BY MAUREEN RYAN VERY SO OFTEN, America agrees to have a debate about violence in popular culture. There are few if any concrete results that emerge from these debates, but it’s certainly a discussion worth having. There’s no doubt that television is generally more violent and resorts to more graphic imagery E Hugh Dancy as Special Agent Will Graham in NBC’s Hannibal, a series that gives the backstory on the Silence of the Lambs serial killer.