This is just my observation. It seems that in the past there actually were a greater number of good TV shows. Now there are fewer. It's much harder to me to find something I want to watch. But the shows that are good are, in fact, excellent and as good or superior to anything that has ever been done. It has reached the point that I tend to assume that a TV show is bad before I even watch it, and sometimes I'm proven to be not just wrong, but very wrong.