@FeartnTired This is actually a big complaint of mine these days.
It seems like nothing can be wholesome or uplifting, everything has to be coarse, ugly, depressing and nasty. There can be no pure adventures and characters must have no redeeming qualities.
It's very clearly justified by calling it "gritty" or "real", or perhaps even "complex". The idea obviously being stories like this are more "sophisticated" and things that aren't like this, are immature and kitchy.
And everywhere, TV and films, that horrible blue filter that makes even the brightest, sunniest summer day look bleak and horrid.
Can you tell I hate it?