Watch one movie or listen to one album without looking at your phone. Do not look up the runtime. Do not read the reviews before you finish. Do not rank it. Just... absorb it.
Let the silence hang there. Let the boring part be boring. Let the sad part actually make you sad without a reaction GIF to buffer the blow. index of xxx
I am not suggesting we burn our tier lists or stop watching YouTube essays. There is a craft to a good recap, and a joy in the taxonomy of pop culture. Watch one movie or listen to one album
On the surface, this feels productive. You are "optimizing" your leisure. You are building encyclopedic knowledge of The Office or Game of Thrones. You are winning arguments about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is). Do not rank it
If a movie is a novel, Index Entertainment is a spreadsheet.