The real difference is you can watch what you want to watch on demand instead of being limited to their selection of shows on their schedule.

Also, you can sign up for a month, watch a series, then cancel and sign up to some other service. Pay for several services and sure, it's expensive. But one or two? Still a hell of a lot cheaper than Cable ever was.

The fact most content is crap is irrelevant - there's more good content available than any reasonable person has time to watch.

Few good series 🧐?

I probably couldn't list all the absolute master pieces I've watched since streaming became a thing. This is some serious rose tinted glasses for the cable Era.

I like reruns of Stargate and law and order as much as the next guy but cable was absolute shit when it came to compelling series.

I hope it's just the literal flood of content we get hit with every some odd months that is warping your perception. You know, rather than the 4 month long weekly episode drops we use to have to suffer through so they could jack up prices on what ever ad they wanted to run in prime time.

That's not even mentioning the vast graveyards of pilots for series that where DOA based solely on air time.