I don't understand this attitude that politics is something you can put in or take out of art, as if you were sieving something tangible. Politics is intrinsic

I don't understand this attitude that politics is something you can put in or take out of art, as if you were sieving something tangible. Politics is intrinsic to and inextricable from art; the difference that's typically perceived is how explicit the work makes its politics and/or how prevalent the discussion is about those politics. The new Star Wars, for example, isn't any more "political" than A New Hope, although we're fortunate enough to live in a time when unpacking its politics (which, incidentally, is shorthand for unpacking how it converses with our world; an imperative aspect of art) is widely encouuraged. Anime is an interesting example. I am an anime fan, but it's a fraught fandom. Let me tell you, anime is just as political, but its attitudes tend to be more conservative (and therefore less visible; they simply seem like the status quo.) Infantilising female characters, lionising masculinity, challenging authority, celebrating community -- even these widespread and conventional tropes of anime are part of its politics. There's increasingly mature criticism around this stuff via outlets like AniFem, the new VRV blog, etc. It's harder to find that criticism of English-speaking TV, though. Of course, you should feel free to ignore all this. I'd argue that it's part of your privilege to be able to ignore the politics of art at will, but that aside, even the most dogmatic critics don't want to be writing a thesis in their heads every time they open Netflix.