Which isn't to say that I think all TV should be bad. But good television comes in many forms, and I don't really think that all of those forms are necessarily universal. It's like a really fantastic mystery novel. I have no doubt that the best of them are truly amazing, and that people who like that kind of thing have a moment of utter bliss upon the ultimate crime ever conceived of in fiction being solved by some brainy detective or bumbling buffoon.
But I don't like mystery novels, which has been a great source of self-loathing and rending of hair throughout the years. I mean, I've tried to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes three times, have gotten through "A Scandal in Bohemia" on each occasion, and have then decided upon each conclusion that I couldn't be bothered with the rest of the book. I just felt that one story was all I really needed. It's not that I think the story wasn't good, or that other people shouldn't love the collection... It's just that I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it all that much.
