Today's "distract from reality", watching Episode 1 of "The Game of Thrones" to figure out what the heck that thing is all about. 🤔
Cyberpunk novel, so many years ago.
Main character's mum likes to get stoned and sit dazed and checked-out for hours, soaking in some immersive holo soap opera, seeing and feeling what the characters saw and felt.
The show had no human writers, went on for years, all excitement and plot twists just generated endlessly by a type of computer program.
If a show or book series reminds of that, I turn it off.