would happily rewatch The Expanse, for instance

A friend and I are trying to pick a TV show to watch together, and she said as a sorting idea that she remembers I don't like science fiction

which is a pretty amazing thing to say about me

but I think what she's actually picking up on is that she watches all the Star Wars and Star Trek shows and I don't, which I have finessed as "I don't have a lot of time to watch TV so I can't watch something where I have to have seen tens of hours to be able to talk about it"

but really it's that I don't like shows that are too big to fail, and this includes a lot of science fiction franchises, but also includes saturday night live and bake off. Once something can't be personal and weird and smash its format up and go in new directions and decide when it's ready to resolve things, it becomes smooth fuzzy surfaces with the fingerprints wiped off.

this is a friend who does not understand art, and she worries there is something wrong with her because she doesn't understand art, but we will eventually figure out a show