Whenever I see a program like that on TV (only in passing, mind you, I don't actually watch them, I try to believe that there is some kind of deep intelligent subtext to the story, characters, and plotline, and that the only reason we're not seeing it is that it somehow got lost in the dubbed translation.

I know, I know, preposterous. Hey, we all have our own ways of coping with the horrors of the world around us.