Good points all. But let me ask you a simple multiple choice question.
Is it 1) The cicadas or 2) The maple trees or 3) The people, who allow a system that leaves us perpetually on the cusp of fascism. My point is that in a decent country, the Mango Mussolini would have been laughed out of the country back in 2015- not rewarded with the White House. He wouldn’t have lost the popular vote by 3 million votes but by 60 million.
I also gave up on it- it occurred to me that if the character’s name wasn’t The Doctor the audience would never know it was supposed be Doctor Who. Gone are the days of galaxy-sweeping adventures through time, alien civilizations, universe-ending wars, fantastic planets (and inventive plots). It’s still good to help one get to sleep.
Your question about how greedy they can get implies that there is a limit. There isn’t