Watching TV used to be simple: You had a couple of channels, a remote and whatever happened to be on at 8 p.m. With the advent of streaming, it’s a rotating door of subscriptions and the increasingly familiar experience of spending 35 minutes browsing just to give up and rewatch something you’ve already seen.
Somewhere along the way, “what should we watch?” turned into “which app has it?” and then into “wait, do we still pay for that one?” The modern streaming setup has become a carefully balanced stack of subscriptions you’re always vaguely threatening to cancel but never quite do.
