Television, despite the recently deceased Lone Star is really good right now. Yet, some of the over-arching themes on them are kind of disturbing.

Unhealthy Relationships.

Seriously, NBC comedy has been murdering healthy relationships: Pilot Carol and Liz Lemon's relationship is about as healthy as a prostitute at the Port Authority. Whatever that was in the Community season two premiere was terrifying. The Nard-Dog lost his girlfriend to that pushover? But it's not just NBC—look at Lone Star on Fox. The guy is happily married to two women. Running Wilde is about two people being kept together—even though they want each other—by a girl who wouldn't speak to her mother for the six years they lived in a jungle. The mother of the eponymous baby on Raising Hope is not only a serial killer but she's executed in the pilot. In the pilot.

Spycraft.

There are about a million shows on right now where people can fantasize about living the covert life. Covert Affairs just ended its all-Led Zeppelin titled season. Burn Notice just wrapped. Chuck is back on. Undercovers premiered last week. The Event is offering peeks behind the curtain of what seems to be Alaska's Area 51 and access to people working for the CIA.

Loss of Identity.

Outsourced is a relatively okay show that's making a lot of cheap jokes about a guy who moves to India to sell Americana. Olivia is turning into a different, creepier Olivia on Fringe. America is going to have to come to terms with the fact that not everyone in America is human on The Event—or the non-human humans will kill you.

Secrecy.

Huge apologies to Stephen Marche of Esquire for lifting this theme but a tip of the cap because he could not be more right. You can't go five minutes in The Event without finding out a new secret. Go back to the Spycraft theme where every show has a secret or characters living a secret life. Everything about Warehouse 13. The chapter of Eureka that just finished? Six people had to keep their time traveling secret from an entire town. On Haven, the whole town is "troubled" by people with supernatural abilities, but the only person capable of handling it is a lady who covers it all up in her reports. Bob Allen pulled a Brigham Young in Lone Star when he married two women. Plus, both he and his Dad are con men. Gloria can't sit Manny down and tell him how she feels on Modern Family.

The Other.

Literally the same guy who was trying to corral all the heroes on Heroes is now cast as the guy trying to round up all the non-human humans on The Event. Talk about contemptible harbinger of the end of the world typecasting. Olivia is stuck in a completely different universe composed of people who look like people she knows but who mostly just want to kill her or turn into the other Olivia on Fringe. The Allen family on Lone Star are two men pitted against entire towns and corporations, people who know less about their land, their deals and their intentions than these two men do. To these men, everyone is a target and they only a step ahead of the law.

Hubris.

On Lone Star Bob and his Dad begin setting themselves up to get their butts kicked so hard. Like, to the moon for a pit stop, double time up to Mars, scrambling for air the whole time. This contemptible adviser character on The Event is starting a war with the non-human humans by thinking he's right about everything and giving the President terrible advice.

Man-children.

Most of the characters on Chuck—the only full-fledged men there might be the Colonel and Big Mike, but Big Mike is M.I.A. right now. Outsourced. Pilot Carol and Daddy Bear. Rescue Me. Modern Family. On Raising Hope, the main character just became a father and he literally can't do anything right—stay employed, date a girl, change a diaper—but point appears to be that he has the potential to grow into a man. Castle on Castle. Hoyt on Undercovers. The cast of The Office and Saturday Night Live; however, some of the funniest people might be people who have not yet lost their sense of childish wonder.