I would suggest checking out the Harry Bosch novels if you haven't done so already. Michael Connelly is a writer who really knows his craft. The Drop, The Burning Room, Echo Park, The Closers and The Last Coyote are all really good; in fact, most of the Bosch series is. And while you're at it, The Brass Verdict and The Fifth Witness from the Mickey Haller series are both excellent.
I am so old.
I looked it up - I would have been 14 when it first came out. Granted, it was usually only rated M15+, but I do remember it being the first show where "medical procedures" was included in the advisory warning. It was pretty unrelenting in what it depicted, but it was never gratuitous. Even the Tarantino episodes (which were really uneven; you could pick which scenes he wrote and which he didn't). It was the other franchises that got lurid, like one on "CSI: Miami" that had a guy swim in a pool spiked with acid.
Onto the final season 7.
If this is the same "Scorpion" that is styled as "</scorpion>", I wouldn't waste too much time on it. For one, all of the characters are completely generic stereotypes, like the overweight Asian math nerd and the tomboy mechanical genius. But the whole show is founded on the premise that the main characters are all geniuses, and yet they are outsmarted by criminals of average intellect every episode.
. Then on top of that he say that it's good.
