And if that weren't enough to explain why some viewers were in need of a snooze, the actors all speak in soft, velvety voices, while wrapped in knitwear and nestled in comfy chairs in shadowy, cave-like rooms.
So perhaps here, the cause of your persistent refusal to consider the bad father introject inhabiting like a shadowy Cronus the cave of Milhous's unconscious.
There are shadowy silver figures - Plato's cave - and the caves of Lascaux are shown on shadowy monitors.
Incredibly, through this tumult, Bamiyan managed to retain an air of pacific calm; the historian Arnold J Toynbee, visiting in 1960, wrote of "peace in the glistening white poplar-trunks … peace in the shadowy shapes of the Buddhas and the caves".
Leaving Jo-Jo behind, he chomps his way through all the darkness in the little boy's neighborhood, then the darkness in rabbit holes, caves and all the other shadowy places of the world.
The shadowy glimpse of a childish Cersei threatening a cave-dwelling witch with having her eyes gouged out in return for a prophecy foretelling the demise of her three children (all of whom will be monarchs, she reveals) is an interesting, if not exactly earth shattering, insight into her twisted nature.
The restaurant, which sits on a shadowy block of East 22nd Street, was like a cave with somber colors, a drippy waterfall and a humorless staff.
Plato's allegory of the cave portrays this rationalist theme in terms of epistemically distinct worlds: what the senses reveal is likened to shadowy imagery on the wall of a poorly lit cave; what the intellect reveals is likened to a world of fully real beings illuminated by bright sunshine.
Entering this place is like swimming into a vast, echoing cliff cave and, once my eyes adjust to the dark, finding it full of rock doves and black cormorants, on shadowy ledges, darting past.
In clean, cosy bedrooms, as in fire-lit caves, childhood's vivid, sometimes fevered imagination peoples the dark with monsters, all the worse for being shadowy.
