At least there are other very good series out there now. What I like to think of as 'designer TV': not the old, main- stream networks but the smaller, private networks all the way down to now include Netflix, Amazon, etc. While these series are usually short (few episodes per season), some are really very good or even excellent IMO and offer a great alternative to the 99% of garbage that is most of what makes up 'TV viewing'. Series like Fargo (excellent, especially the first year), True Detective (again, first year especially) The Killing (very good) and so on.
IMO, TV has always been terrible: when I was a kid, Gilligan's Island, Batman and about a gazillion other, truly terrible TV shows were all we had and that was at least 99% of all that was available. There were three networks and the occasional UHF local station and there were all our choices: terrible show on network1, terrible show on network2 and network3, or an ancient repeat of a Three Stooges short on the UHF channel. Today we have dozens of networks and additional pathways to stream video data..... and I believe it is now 99.8% garbage. Lots more TV, lots more garbage. But here and there, a decent or even excellent show or series shows up, usually from a specialty source rather than one of the main networks. So those few shows, coupled with the ease of digital recording, storing and time- shifting (and all of it in HD, which is also great IMO), at least provide the possibility to watch something decent.
Not that there is anything wrong with the occasional, mind- numbing, 'jiggle' show but really, how many hours can one watch the same..... jiggle?
Brian
You're right, Brian. The series was perfect. I was kinda sad to see it end.