Sentence:  Should we be surprised? It is not as though we haven't seen this stuff before in glossy, <WSD>grand guignol</WSD> crime series such as Luther and Ripper Street, with their artful depictions of lady corpses, all alabaster skin and wonkily splayed limbs, as men stand over them stifling their erections. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  That which thrives on grotesquery and gore.