The movie / TV show inverse correlation hypothesis

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Ever noticed how the 80s has the best movies and the worst TV shows? Great movies like The Breakfast Club and terrible TV shows like ALF.

Even fondly remembered TV shows like Star Trek TNG didn't get good until the 90s. The first couple of seasons were so bad.

Speaking of sci-fi shows, the 90s had great sci-fi shows but then the 00s was mostly magical realism stuff. All these lame shows that were like fantasy except set in the real world in modern times (this was before Game of Thrones became a TV show).

Yet the 00s produced some pretty sci-fi movies. So maybe my hypothesis of inverse TV show / movie quality applies more strongly to sci-fi shows.

This is just for fun. I'm not proposing there's a scientific law like the inverse correlation between gravitational attraction and the distance between two bodies. Maybe it something to do with trends in film and TV production. Maybe it's pure coincidence.