I’m also fascinated. I think a big part of it is coming home to tasks that are low stakes, guaranteed solvable and made fun to solve.
Gives some much needed stimulation of your job is to solve complex tasks which are high stakes, not guaranteed solvable and which require lots of effort for little reward.
I somehow missed one of the middle episodes of the first season of House of Cards, and was very surprised at the boldness of having to piece together what had happened between episodes. Very demanding of the viewer.
I did realise my mistake immediately after though.