r/television has devolved into just two types of posts

1. Posts made by redditors to praise a show they like so that other redditors can come in and tell them how wrong they are and to shut up

2. News articles posted from sites that report on movies and tv shows, which are just flooded with comments about "ads" "bots" "Shills" "disney checks" "it's about ethics in journalism" stuff.

The recommendation topic pinned to the top is the only reason to bother to come in here anymore sadly

That felt right out of Obi-Wan. or Return of the Jedi with the ewoks taking them out with rocks and sticks I guess. Stuck out like a sore thumb due to how much work they've done to make the Empire look scary and not like something a bunch of kids with ropes could take down.

lol. I read the Harry Potter series when they came out. But I was so over the "chosen one orphan being brought up by assholes who finds they're talented in magic and are trained by an old wizard". From Star Wars, Wheel of Time, David Eddings, Sword of Truth, blah blah blah

By the time Harry Potter came out I was so over it. Hero of a Thousand Faces and all that.

Good luck. Cop, doctor and lawyer shows are what brings most viewers in on network TV. Been that way for awhile. L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere.

Combine a couple and you have mega hits like Law and Order.

They aren't going anywhere. Best you can hope for is some kind of genre bend. Like vampire cop or immortal doctor or werewolf lawyer

That sucks. This was a fun show. Wonder if they'll even get a chance to wrap things up this season or if it'll end on a cliffhanger

Yeah can we get back to whining in every thread with a positive review of something that the site is full of shills and bots trying to lie to us about how everything sucks

I used to watch the original british series back on Nickleodeon in the 80s. CW remkes are usually not good.

Not exactly what you're asking. But if you want to take a nostalgia trip of old commercials or TV show promos you can usually find collections of them on YouTube. Lots of long videos that are just commercial after commercial from specific years.

Can we not return back to the days when Price of Right contestants had some dignity and manners?!?

Yeah that sounds exactly like what I watched when I'd stay home sick from school in the 80s lol

OP better not check out Let's Make a Deal

What streaming service is this on?

Perdido Street Station or any book in the Bas Lag saga

Deep Space 9. I watched it as it aired, just like I watched every episode of TNG. But at some point I moved out on my own and didn't have an actual TV for a few months.

I also dipped out on Hannibal, but just becomes I had some tragedies in my family and I couldn't deal with anything dark.

And I jumped off the GoT train once they started bypassing the material from the books. Not only did I want to avoid book spoilers as much as possible. But I could tell the show was starting to veer into "give the fans what they want" territory, which is kind of the opposite of the book series. Plus leaving important elements out that made me question how close they were even going to be trying to get to the book series.

My friends, who I got into the show because I loved the books, called me a fool because GoT was too good and would stay good forever!

Season 5 really is a good place to quit the show. There are still good episodes after that. But season 5 completes a massive arc in a very satisfying way and it'd honestly be the perfect series finale except for the last 5 seconds.

Either way though, I always recommend the S10E05 episode "Fan Fiction" You can watch it right after the S5 finale as it doesn't have much to do with anything that happened after that, and it's a fun meta episode as Sam and Dean find a school putting on a musical play based on their lives.

(Well, technically I guess it does have spoilers for the S6 premiere as it lets you know neither Sam or Dean are dead...but considering the show has 15 seasons that's not really a big giveaway)

A Talking Master??!?