I ' ve also made a new sub rLocLacCity Remember , there is no movie outside this town . <| sep |> Because a good show is all about the atmosphere . Most good shows on TV are edited to punctuate the drama into several acts with a commercial break fit into them . This means that brief intermissions are part of the atmosphere , just like when you finish a chapter and close the book and reopen it the next night at the start of another one . Its really not bad on reasonable channels that include fair commercials instead of those shitty ones that have them every 5 minutes . You can tell the difference because a reasonable channel doesn ' t cut in the middle of a scene . That ' s why most mainstream TV shows are shit , too The people willing to sit through the ads are the ones who are atmosphereautistic . That ' s total bullshit . If you watched Mad Men or Breaking Bad countless other great shows they were also punctuated with commercials . To suggest that great shows are not to be found in the realm of commercials is just being silly . I ' m a very pretentious from the perspective of some others connoisseur of not shitty mainstream culture and I share your aversion to advertising for the most part but really , you sound like an edgy twenty something when you take this extreme position .