Considering how hard ordinary life has become for so many people, it’s probably no coincidence that much of our daily entertainment diet has adopted a vocabulary about survival. Sometimes we’re checking out how a group of weekend vacationers are going to survive the local axe murderer. Sometimes we’re just chillin’ with a team of government assassins rationalizing dirty deeds while struggling to figure out why their home life is so fraught. In other words, hard days have become good times.