Indefinite rewatchability is my revealed top criterion for a TV show to be on my favorites list. Surprisingly, this maps to a certain mediocrity and inefficiency in storytelling. Fat narrative over lean. So shows can fail to make my list by being too bad OR too good to rewatch.
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Yeah imho, "value" started decreasing when adaptations from novels/stories started dying off. Cinema also followed similar trajectory. Telugu/Tamil could send a film to some international festival every 4-5 years, but now hardly one in 10-15, instant gratification "masala" ...
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... movies started taking over. So these days any half-decent movie/series on Prime/Netflix/Hotstar in any Indian language gets hailed as path breaking etc...
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A few episodes of Dekh Bhai Dekh on YouTube entertained us during initial lockdown. Many swear by Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. Nukkad was great. It somehow reminded me of Cheers.
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Partly lack of access, but mostly just poor quality. Indian TV 1980s-90s was... not good. And I think it got worse after I left in 97, not better.