The thing is, everything is controversial for someone. I don't swear and hate hearing it, but there are times it is appropriate to a character on tv or in a film and I accept that; I think most sex scenes are unnecessary and done to titillate rather than essential to the plot but they are in so many things - even scenes added to Shakespeare, for goodness sake. The sex scenes in this seem to have been part of the plot and I fancied the storyline anyway but my tv is very unusual in that I am able to tune to a different channel or even turn it off altogether if I don't want to see what's on. No one is actually forced to watch anything they don't want to.

I'm more inclined to get angry at historical inaccuracies in periods I know about. I couldn't watch more than two episodes of "Rome", for instance.

I'm not sure about the timings of these things....but I'm assuming that HBO decided to go with Westworld - which seems to be their next big show - rather than The Devil You Know.  But I must admit that with the end of Games of Thrones now in sight (almost....) I'm clinging on to the hope that they might still come back to this in the future.