[CubsFan1060]

I wish I had a way to quantify it, but it also seems like _investment_ has skyrocketed. 20 years ago HBO might make a high quality, high budget show. Now we have shows like the Marvel TV Shows, Wheel of Time, Foundation, House of the Dragon, the Mandalorian, Rings of Power, etc.. that all have MASSIVE budgets. A lot of that was funded by free money, but I think the quality and expectation of TV shows has gone up quite a bit.

[ghaff]

Aside from the odd miniseries, TV was mostly sitcoms, cop shows, reality TV over time, etc. Even HBO was mostly a way to watch movies until the Sopranos came along. There's been a massive transformation over the past few decades to TV being something on par with film in terms of talent and production values. I have no idea what the shows on network TV even are these days and, as far as I'm aware, there's nothing with any sort of buzz.

[2muchcoffeeman]

But I still need at least 3 services to watch them. When pirating is just as easy and at worst costs you 1 service: a VPN.

[ghaff]

>But I still need at least 3 services to watch them.

Which costs you maybe a third of what a cable TV subscription cost you.

[DeathArrow]

What if you aren't into sci-fi and fantasy?

[TeMPOraL]

Then it should be even better, because more mainstream interests means consuming media with more investment behind them.

[BLKNSLVR]

I don't understand the question.

[DeathArrow]

When talking about new, great content, parent mentioned only sci-fi and fantasy content: Marvel TV Shows, Wheel of Time, Foundation, House of the Dragon, the Mandalorian, Rings of Power, etc

So, it seemed that if you are into that stuff, you have some amazing content. But what if you are not?

[ghaff]

I tend towards SF myself but Deadwood, Russian Doll, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Succession... There's a lot of quality TV out there on streaming across a range of genres.

[BLKNSLVR]

Sorry, I was trying to be funny...

Context switch: I think I'll be forever disappointed that The Peripheral got axed.