What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about series, streaming services, the wider industry etc?

The only good streaming services is a self-hosted streaming service.

I don't know how unpopular it is, but I'd like to be able to buy individual series without having to pay a monthly charge for a platform.

Say $20.00 for the first four seasons of "Slow Horses"

You could watch the first half of the first episode for free, and then have the option to buy.

Not unlike when people buy 'season tickets' for the NFL games.

edit = I have invented DVD box sets. What a genius!!

You can buy it but it's $70, not $40, and only DVD, not BluRay, for some antiquated reason.
Well you kinda can do that on Amazon and Apple, although its more "renting" than buying - I believe. And they don't have everything.
- lol!
  After I posted I realized I "invented" DVD box sets.
  C'set la vie!
- I've come to refer to these "purchases" as "indefinite rentals".
- You can "purchase" titles on Walmart's VUDU and Google TV (quotes to account for the possibility of them ceasing to exist, which would then cause you to lose your right to stream-for-free).

I've grown tired of everything having a subscription and the costs rising every year.

It's much better to just purchase what you want to watch or self host.

I don't watch over 90% of what's on Netflix anyways.

Some streaming shows use sex, sexualized nudity, and the word "fuck" WAY too much. I specify sexual nudity because it's always sex based, and it starts hindering the rest of the show

Streaming TV services still offer an exceptional value, as compared to the cable subscriptions of yesteryear, without the ads. The content is way way better. Plus you get to pick and choose what channels to subscribe to.

I typically rotate my subscription to a different service every 3 months or so.

You know.... I see your point

We should reclaim the broadcast airwaves from television companies and use it to broadcast news, sports, and PBS, all paid for with taxes. There's no reason that one conglomerate should have a monopoly on the electromagnetic spectrum so they can be showing Judge Judy reruns all day.

I don't mind the 2+ year wait between seasons.

Sure I want the seasons to come out as soon as they can and having to wait multiple years is a bummer, but I can wait.

My excitement for a show does fade, but it comes back as soon as the show is ready to air.

Alien: Earth is not good :(

"Alien3" was awful, "Resurrection" was great and should have been the end. Everything after that was garbage. Double if there was a Predator involved.
- Have you seen the "Special Edition" of Alien3?
  It works out a lot better overall.

Game of Thrones is not a must watch TV show. If you are into that type of stuff go for it, but it doesn't much much of a value in your life if you do watch it.

imho 'Black Sails' did everything GOT was supposed to do with much less talk. Plenty of sex, violence, and intrigue done with great acting and photography.
- I would argue that if you come looking at Game of Thrones for sex and violence, you're probably not looking at the right show. Lots of talk and intrigue is where the show was at its best.
I fucking love Game of Thrones, but it's also obvious that the show took a noticeable drop in quality. Starting at season 5 and arriving at season 7, it's astounding the level of complete incompetence from the writers and characters making asinine decisions and nothing makes sense anymore, and Game of Thrones season 8 is a complete train wreck. It's a shame, because all the way up to there, the first four seasons are absolutely amazing.
- Yeah when they announced no lady Stoneheart I knew it wasn't going to continue being good. I'm not even a big fan of her but man is she important to the story and how things are changing in the world.

I would rather fanfic-tier adaptions (e.g. Man in the High Castle, Foundation) were not made. I don't have issue with creative adaptations or re-interpretations, or even attempts that don't go well. I do have issue with taking the setting and making up some random concept. Make up your own settings.

Season 02 of True Detective was all in all a better production than Season 01. The first season was objectively better made, the second was in many ways flawed, but it had a realistic ending and more gritty motifs.

Mini series or tight single season series are generally much better quality than multi-season narrative driven productions. This of course doesn't apply to sitcoms, anthologies, [show concept] of the week series where there is minimal emphasis on a broader narrative arc.