The title should speak for itself, but just in case you haven't seen an episode: A woman is burned alive in the first five minutes of the pilot. So there you go.

We will say this about Hannibal: Its violence is some of the prettiest we've ever seen on TV. From the cannibalism-inspired dishes to the well nigh elegant staging of dead bodies, this is killing at its artiest.

We may or may not be addicted to forensics TV. All we'll say is that after watching a half-dozen or so episodes of this show, we start to see murder scenes in our dreams.

Our pick for the most violent episode of this anthology of terror? A tie between Twisty the Clown's murder scenes and the work of Bloody Face. Unless ... wait. We forgot about that beheading in Season 3.

Whether its severed, crab-eaten human legs in New Orleans or barely-recognizable bits of muscle mass on a bathroom floor in Vegas, the CSI franchise specializes in jaunty, almost flip violence.

Horror aficionados like their mass murders to be curated with care. And nobody crafts a horror project like Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero, two of the greatest names in the creature effects business.

As if this past season's plot, full of war and village raids, didn't bring enough killing, here's what show creator Michael Hirst says is coming next year: "Yeah, we're gonna attack Paris."

We almost didn't put this glib cartoon in our lineup. And then we were reminded about the epic chicken fights, which, technically, provide enough rock 'em and sock 'em for an entire season.

You know we're right. Anyone who fails to agree with us on this one gets thrown out the Moon Door, or beheaded by somebody with a geographical feature for a nickname.

This Hamlet-on-a-Harley drama majors not just in killings, but mass killings--club-on-club massacres, school shootings, that kind of thing. Its minor? Throat slitting by and on men with beards.

Sure, this serial-killer series isn't just about killing. It's also about, say, tying people up, slitting their wrists and drinking their blood. No wonder one critic called it "one of the most violent ... series ever made by a commercial broadcast network."

OK, no one dies during an NFL bout, but would you put yourself on the front line against some of those human refrigerators come kick-off time? Exactly. Even the mascots can look menacing.

This Prohibition-Era series has ramped up the violence in recent seasons, thanks to the introduction of last season's gang war. This season's opener seemed almost tame in comparison: Bugsy Siegel only whacked one guy.

Just hear us out here. If you were a duck, this show would be the equivalent of Criminal Minds. Will someone please think of the water fowl?