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The length is part of the analogy. The whole genre is a waste of time. A 'mystery box' is to mystery as a shaggy dog story is to a joke, but at least there's some absurdist humour in a shaggy dog story when you realize it's an anti-joke. The mystery box is just pretending to have put in effort. It's human made but with the same level of 'intelligence' as AI slop.
These shows are insulting to the audience at the end because the whole production is just the producers saying 'it doesn't matter if it makes sense. These idiots will eat the slop and love it anyway.' The people who say 'I don't care. I liked it anyway,' are the exact idiots the producers are mocking, but too stupid to know they're being mocked.