For those who aren’t familiar, Magic Slates are those toys that have been around at least since the '50s- you write on a piece of gray cellophane over a waxy background, then raise the celophane and- voila!- it’s blank again due to a magic only the ancients understood. Picture.
An embarrassing number of TV shows and books and movies are like Magic Slates to me: I like them well enough when I’m reading them or watching them, but once finished the cellophane comes up and between most and all of the plot is gone forever from my mind. Most “beach reading” is like this, including most (not all) Grisham, but even some things that I really like are in this category. Foremost may be Doctor Who: I like the show a lot, but I might remember one in seven episodes with David Tennant and only slightly more with Matt Smith (the more being because I haven’t had as long to forget them) and if it’s an episode that has a callback to something that happened 12 episodes ago then it might as well be in the Jon Pertwee years (which I’ve never seen) because I probably won’t have a clue. (“Let’s see, I remember three episodes from around then- the one with Oods, the one with Daleks, and the one with neither Oods nor Daleks”.)
Ditto Star Trek episodes (TNG or later), pretty much all action films, and almost all sitcoms save for Community class or above: most are never saved to the hard drive.
What are your Magic Slate entertainments?