We almost escaped, during the age of the DVR, when the problem was having enough DVR space to record all of your programs so you could skip the commercials. But they cleverly stopped that by removing all watchable programming from live Tv. All it took to ween you off all those engaging comedy and drama shows you used to record was to substitute endless fake reality TV and game shows, and about 15 ever-more-ridiculous versions of NCIS .
Then they forced us to buy a dozen steaming platforms so we could surf endlessly though mountains of garbage in order to locate one program worth watching per day. And even then, every other word is the "F" word.
About once a week, I start surfing at 7:00, and call the wife at 8:00 if I find something. But most nights we usually just wind up watching 20-year-old reruns of some old show we used to watch but now no longer remember.
The great part about that strategy is that they can't find advertisers for the old shows. So you only get hit with a couple of minutes of self-promotion every half hour, instead of 5 minutes of inscrutable drug commercials for every 10 minutes of verbal abuse they inflict on you.
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