A two-person household has spent forty-seven minutes selecting a forty-two minute programme, ultimately choosing an episode both had already seen.

Selection began at 8:04 p.m. and concluded at 8:51 p.m., a duration the Institute for Evening Logistics classifies as within normal range.

“Neither party wants to choose,” said Institute researcher Dr. Lorelei Ashcombe. “Choosing creates liability. If the programme is poor, the chooser is responsible for the evening.”

The household employed the standard protocol: one member scrolled while the other issued non-committal sounds carrying no decision-making weight but full veto power.

Eleven titles were opened, trailers auto-played for four, and two were added to a list that now contains one hundred and ninety items and functions, according to the Institute, as a graveyard.

“Adding to the list is a way of declining without conflict,” Ashcombe said. “Nothing has ever been removed from a list by being watched.”

At 8:44 the platform interrupted with the message “Still watching?” No one had watched anything.

The household ultimately selected a familiar episode, which the Institute notes is the most common outcome and the only one with a guaranteed result.

Both parties fell asleep at minute nineteen.