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by Rd6n6 1616 days ago
Great content is x% of all content. If you want more great shows, the industry will need to make a ton of shows and most won’t be great. We’ve had a decade of really amazing tv, it’s no wonder there is some mediocre work in there too. We also just spent 2 years in semi-lockdown, it’s hard to make movies and tv in that situation, there were a lot of delayed great projects
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FalconSensei 1616 days ago
> We’ve had a decade of really amazing tv, it’s no wonder there is some mediocre work in there too.

Agree. We remember the good shows from the previous decades, but there was a lot of thrash

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GenerocUsername 1616 days ago
That's making some unfounded assumptions.

Good content is not a fixed % of total. So if you increase total you might just water down the % of good content... Or worse, if practices focus on quantity entirely you may end up with 0% good content.

Even shows I used to enjoy seem to have taken a steep decline since about 2018.

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Rd6n6 1616 days ago
It’s not one person on a throne making decisions for the entire industry. Many different organizations are all making tv shows and movies, so you tend to get a mix even if the large companies focus on bad content

The things in decline imho are due to studios taking their best people off the project to kick start new ones

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GenerocUsername 1607 days ago
True, but industries tend to follow each-others trends for better or worse at least in short-term cycles. Its entirely possible for a whole industry to lean towards a bad solution for 5 years before course correcting.

The most recent has been the proliferation of Streaming services and original content to try and own unique content per-platform. Netflix and HBO did well from 2014-2017, and everyone else hopped onto the bandwagon to mediocre effect since

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