Critic's Notebook: Network TV embraces the B-word

Since a court decision loosened restrictions, the expletive has been showing up everywhere — often to great comedic effect. But is there a larger trend at play?

Last year, when the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals curtailed the Federal Communications Commission's powers to punish networks for "fleeting expletives," many worried that network television would become a battlefield of explodingF-bombsand barely bleeped C-words. Turns out, all the decision, currently under review by the Supreme Court, did was unleash the "bitches."

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