Industrial-scale US network shows also don't necessarily punch through in the way that a short-run British drama can.
More remarkable than the fact that Fitzgerald beat Adorno and Horkheimer and the Occupy movement to the punch, however, is that he saw all this before Wall Street came smashing down.
"Botta e risposta," read Sunday night's top headline on Tuttosport.com – "Punch and counterpunch".
There's been no random act of violence involving a politician, no John Prescott punch.
Gavin began to find his range in the following round but his punches lacked punch and Brook finished the job off in the sixth, rocking the challenger with two thudding shots before pinning him against the ropes with a barrage of shots.
She remembers nothing after accepting a glass of punch.
But I don't object to it – it's atmospheric and pretty menacing, although it packs nothing like the punch of Avon's powerful "How you ain't never gonna be slow, gonna be late?" scene last week.
Root knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of a punch from a fellow professional having been the subject of Warner's ire during their infamous dust-up at Birmingham's Walkabout bar during the 2013 Champions Trophy.
Another diplomat said: "If he calls me Paddy again, I'll punch him".
He said: "This show is so popular and you're in people's houses every night so to be associated with that crime, like I said if I have to get abuse on Twitter or a punch in the mouth, I'm fine with that as long as one person speaks out".
