Why do we pay for three streaming services and still have nothing to watch?

Friday night. Four subscriptions, a few thousand titles, and twenty minutes of scrolling before giving up and rewatching something from 2009.

Choice isn't the same as discovery. When the networks picked for us, we complained, but we also watched the same things and talked about them the next day. Now the algorithm picks for each of us separately, and the shared conversation is thinner.

Maybe what we're missing isn't a good show. It's the feeling that everyone else is watching it too.