The app opened like a door to a bazaar. Rows of channels stretched out—live sports, old films, news broadcasts in languages he could only hum along to. There were categories for every late-night longing: documentaries that smelled of dust and tar, comedy that landed like warm tea, a cinema archive that promised titles from distant decades. The layout was clever and fast, optimized for the Firestick’s modest memory, as if someone had rebuilt television with thought and care.