As wretched as Yeager's behavior is, I'm pretty shocked at Cyrus. The repressed scientist is losing his grip even when he's not changing. Yeager is meant to be evil, so I expect nastiness from him, but watching Cyrus get friendly with Maggie's gloves was even creepier than the scene by the docks, IMO.
DS does seem to be turning darker in parallel time with the earlier implied rape of Buffie and now Yeager's attack on Maggie (the only comparable event I can think of was a time when Adam dragged Carolyn to the floor and demanded that she love him, but even that wasn't as forceful as the PT scenes.) Nevertheless, it's still subtle enough not to be flagrant. If this show were a product of today's standards, I know it would be much more graphic.
ProfStokes