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Those are great, but those are all HBO, if I recall, which is decidedly not TV in my opinion (I have HBO Now).

You'd be hard pressed to find something on live cable television that isn't trash or available somewhere else without obnoxious ads (loudness mitigation is a lie) and cheaper.

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>those are all HBO

>You'd be hard pressed to find something on live cable television that isn't trash

Breaking Bad and Mad Men were both on AMC.

Ah, my mistake. I could have sworn I saw them listed on HBO.

While this might disprove my statement, I don't think it's entirely without merit, still.

Well, I think Breaking Bad is also on Netflix.

If you're picking up Breaking Bad right now, you'd watch it on Netflix. The only reason you'd watch it on TV is if you're catching it the first time it's airing. I only joined on the last season so I don't have much context, but everyone I knew in college would wait for it to air and immediately torrent the commercial-free episode. For something huge like the ending I know some people that hosted small viewing parties to watch it live, but many were fine with waiting.

Also, Breaking Bad ended in 2013, and Mad Men in 2015. That list only has two entries. Maybe not literally everything on live cable TV is trash, but I think it highlights that there's a clear decline.

The obvious example is The Americans, and... nothing else comes to mind. Everything else worth watching is created by Netflix or HBO (or maybe Amazon).

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