If you subscribe to one or more streaming services, you may have noticed the glut of MA-rated original programs being produced and distributed exclusively for those platforms. Netflix and Amazon Prime, even CBS All Access, tend to run toward not merely adult content, but extremely adult content with their original series and movies.

Streaming video providers are neither constrained by broadcast decency laws or by pressure from sponsors or would-be sponsors, and it shows. As with CBS All Access’s Twilight Zone reboot and Netflix’s acquisition of Designated Survivor, we now see that even shows that had been successful and well-established as PG-rated family viewing over the air have been given the TV-MA treatment when moved to streaming.