That's one of the things that bugs me about all the excuses people make. The vast majority of TV these days is made for people to half watch while on their phones. It's not some intellectual and artistic masterpiece that demands careful attention. You almost have to be doing something else besides watching it to make it watchable, a bit like the average bollywood movie. So why not make that second thing exercise, cooking, cleaning or whatever? For home workouts and any kind of cleaning that or podcasts are my goto. And I've never run out of material that fits into the "kinda want to half watch" category. Awesome if something proves so good that I shift it over to actually watch closely later on. But that doesn't happen all that often.