The lead character, Frank Black, is a detective with the psychic power to vividly imagine a crime exactly as it took place. During the October 25 premiere, Black is in the morgue, standing next to the body of a woman slaughtered by a sadistic serial killer. He envisions the woman screaming and struggling, then pictures the body decapitated, lying in a pool of blood. Black imagines the victim set ablaze and running through the woods screaming in agony. The police eventually rescue a man kidnapped by the killer and buried alive.
Every scene here contains the most gruesome visuals possible.
Mind you, this is only a fragment of the violence in the premiere. As was pointed out in a previous UCLA study, a problem with TV violence in the past was a lack of attention given to its consequences. In recent years, that's changed. The violence itself is not portrayed. Its goal is to portray the violence itself, in all of its horror.