isn't this actually the defining feature of commercial American television? You don't see a lot of incisive political commentary on Dancing with the Stars or a season of Survivor either

basically cleansing entertainment of anything that could be considered incendiary and replacing it with people doing funny dances is something the American ad industry came up with a century ago.

Like it's not as if American popular entertainment looks like German ARTE or some Scandinavian drama where politics and culture is baked into everything