re: All these new fantastic series VS all of Hollywood's latest "movies"

Soap operas didn't die; they just moved to prime time and acquired better production values. Movies are more fatiguing because they're longer than a series episode, and they necessarily have to compress their story to fit their rigid format, which gives the creators less time to develop the characters and story, and less time for you to develop an interest in it. And once a movie's over, that's it for that world, at least until the sequel a few years later. I think it's much harder to create a great movie than a great series, because a movie needs to accomplish in 2-3 straight hours what a series gets to do in 12 or more one hour chunks.